REGIONS OF VA
What region of Virginia has flat land, borders the Chesapeake Bay?
What is Coastal Plain (Tidewater) Region?
What is the state that borders Virginia to the north?
What is Maryland?
What year was Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement, established?
What is 1607?
Who called the people he found in the lands he explored “Indians” because he thought he was in the Indies (near China)?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Who inspired patriots from other colonies when he spoke out against taxation without representation by saying, “…give me liberty or give me death”?
Who is Patrick Henry?
What is trading or exchanging goods and services without the use of money? (example: trading corn for beads)
What is barter?
What region is known for having coal products, coal mining industry, and is located in the Southwestern part of Virginia?
What is the Appalachian Plateau?
What state covers most of Virginia's southern border?
What is North Carolina?
What year did the arrival of additional women help the colony to become more permanent?
What is 1620?
Who provided military leadership by serving as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, and called the Father of our Country?
Who is George Washington?
Who studies all kinds of material evidence left by people from the past?
What is an archaeologist?
What document states that authority to govern belongs to the people rather than to kings and that all people are created equal and have rights unalienable rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
What region has old rounded mountains, is the source of many rivers?
What is the Blue Ridge Mountain Region?
What state borders Virginia to the west?
What is Kentucky?
When year did the first Africans arrive and the first meeting held of the General Assembly of Virginia?
What is 1619?
Who granted charters to the Virginia Company of London to establish a settlement in North America and to extend English rights to the settlers?
Who is the King of England?
Is Jamestown and island or peninsula today?
What is an island? (Erosion over time made it an island)
What document was written by George Mason, states that all Virginians have many rights, including freedom of religion and freedom of the press?
What is The Virginia Declaration of Rights?
What region has rolling hills, is west of the fall line. It is known for its tobacco products, information technology, federal and state government, farming, and horse industry?
What is the Piedmont Region
What body of water separates the Eastern Shore from the Mainland of Virginia?
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
When did England become known as Great Britain?
What is the 1700s?
Who provided leadership to his people and taught the settlers survival skills?
Who is Chief Powhatan?
What is the only Virginia state-recognized tribe that is not located in the Coastal Plains Region?
What is the Monocan Tribe?
What is the term that means buying a good or service now and paying for it later?
What is credit?
What region contains the Great Valley of Virginia and the German and Scots-Irish settled here?
What is the Valley and Ridge Region?
Each river was a source of ______________ and a pathway for ________________ and settlement of Virginia?
What is food and exploration?
What year was Abraham Lincoln elected?
What is 1860?
Who served as a contact between the native peoples and the English?
Who is Pocahontas?
What is the shallow body of water that is surrounded by the Dismal Swamp and located in the Coastal Plain (Tidewater) region?
What is Lake Drummond?
What is a medium of exchange ( such as currency, which includes coins and paper bills)?
What is money?
What natural border separates the Coastal Plain and Piedmont Regions with waterfalls that prevent further travel on the rivers?
What is the Fall Line?
What city is located on the Potomac River?
What is Alexandria?
What year did the Burgesses become a separate legislative body (called the House of Burgesses)?
What was 1640?
Who initiated trading relationships with the native peoples, created the forced work program, and helped Jamestown survive with his strong leadership?
Who is Captain John Smith?
What state was created because of conflict that grew between the eastern counties of Virginia that relied on slavery and the western counties that did not favor slavery?
What is West Virginia?
What document was written by Thomas Jefferson, states that all people should be free to worship as they please?
What is The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom?
What river forms a natural border between Virginia and Maryland?
What is the Potomac River?
What two cities are located on the James River?
What are Jamestown and Richmond?
What year did Lee surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House?
What is April, 1865?
Who was provided political leadership by expressing the reasons for colonial independence from Great Britain in the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What word means full equality of people of all races in the use of public facilities and services?
What is integration?
What document was written to provide a set of rules and laws for our new nation?
What is the United States Constitution?
What is located in the Coastal Plain (Tidewater) region, has a variety of wildlife, and was explored and surveyed by George Washington?
What is the Dismal Swamp?
What city is located on the Rappahannock River?
What is Fredericksburg?
What year did Brown v. Board of Education occur?
What is 1954?
Who was an enslaved African American from Virginia, who served in the Continental Army, and successfully requested his freedom after the war?
Who is James Armistead Lafayette?
Who led the Massive Resistance Movement against the desegregation of public schools, was known for a “Pay As You Go” policy for road improvements, and modernized Virginia state government?
Who is Harry F. Byrd?
What is the name of the first ten amendments containing the key ideas from the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom called?
What are the Bill of Rights? (to the U.S. Constitution)