Virginia Studies

Regions of VA

100

This region is known for having for flat land

What is the Coastal Plain

200

This is the region that we live in.

What is the piedmont region?

300

This is the body of water that separates the mainland from the Eastern Shore

What is the Chesapeake Bay?

400

This natural border separates the Chesapeake and Piedmont regions.

What is the fall line?

500

Please Remember Your Jacket helps you remember the names of these bodies of water.

What are Virginia's rivers?

First People

100

This word means "objects or tools that tell about people from the past"

What are artifacts?

200

This Indian language group lived in the Coastal Plain region of Virginia.

What is Algonquian?

300

This Indian language group lived in the Piedmont region of Virginia.

What is Siouan?

400

This Indian language group settled in the Appalachian Plateau region of Virginia.

What is Iroquoian?

500

During this season Virginia Indians lived off the food they had stored from the previous season.

What is Winter?

Jamestown

100

This country wanted to start a colony in the "New World" to increase their wealth and power.

What is England?

200

The Virginia Company of London was granted this document that allowed it to define physical boundaries of the colony.

What is a charter?

300

This captain implemented the rule "If you don't work, you don't eat."

Who is John Smith?

400

This time period was characterized by people dying from hunger and disease. 

What is the Starving Time?

500

This was the first elected body in colonial America.

What is the House of Burgesses?

Colony Life

100

This crop was used as a form of money in early Virginia.

What is tobacco?

200

Contaminated drinking water, unhealthy living conditions, and fires were reasons for what.

What is the capital moving from Jamestown to Williamsburg?

300

These were large farms that grew a lot of one major cash crop.

What are plantations?

400

This group brought with them traditions such as clog dancing and twangy country music.

Who are the Scots-Irish?

500

Barrels to hold tobacco, ships to transport goods, and tools to help farm are known as this kind of resource.

What is a capital resource?

The Revolution

100

This was caused Britain to be in large amounts of debt which led to them taxing the colonists.

What is the French and Indian War. 

200

This small skirmish happened on March 5, 1770 and was caused by a snowball.

What is the Boston Massacre?

300

This group felt that is had the right to tax the colonists.

Who/What is Parliament?

400

This man is known for his "Give me liberty or give me death" speech.

Who is Patrick Henry?

500

Thomas Jefferson wrote this document to tell King George the colonists grievances(complaints).

What is the Declaration of Independence?