Revolutionary War
This was the first land battle of the American Revolution that was fought in Virginia.
What is The Battle of Great Bridge.
This is the language of the Powhatan tribe.
What is Algonquian?
The act of keeping facilities and services such as schools, bathrooms, and businesses separate due to race.
What is segregation?
Another word for farming.
What is agriculture?
This man rode on horseback through the backwoods of Virginia to warn Thomas Jefferson that the British were coming to arrest him.
Who is Jack Jouett.
Language of the Monacan tribe.
What is Siouan?
This set of laws legally established separation of races.
What are the Jim Crow laws?
Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Busch Gardens help Virginia's economy in this area.
What is tourism?
The location of the last battle of the Revolutionary War, where the British surrendered.
What is Yorktown?
Language of the Cherokee people.
What is Iroquoian?
This fee and other discriminatory practices prevented many African Americans from voting.
What are poll taxes?
This crop was the most profitable agriculture product sold to England.
What is tobacco?
The document that said the American colonies should be free from British rule.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This tribe lived in Southern Virginia near what is today North Carolina.
Who are the Cherokee?
The unfair difference in the treatment of people.
What is discrimination?
Virginia has a large number of these two industries.
What are communication and technology?
This group, along with the King of England, believed they should have legal authority over the colonies.
What is parliament?
A large Indian town used by Indian leaders for several hundred years before the settlers came. It was the headquarters of Powhatan.
What is Werowocomoco?
The policy created by Virginia's government to resist the integration of public schools.
What is Massive Resistance?
The federal government, located in Washington, DC has a large impact on this region of Virginia.
What is the Piedmont?