VA Geography
This region is characterized by elevated land that is flat on top.
What is the Appalachian Plateau?
This is the movement of people and goods.
What is transportation?
This former president wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This is the study of human history through objects left behind.
What is archaeology?
The high profit from this product meant that the colony could afford to bring over more setters, laborers, and supplies.
These are the two large bodies of water that border Virgina.
What is the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean?
This is Virginia's most valuable source of agricultural income.
What is livestock?
This former president was known as the "Father of the Constitution."
Who is James Madison.
These were the three major language groups of Virginia's Indigenous People.
What is Algonquian, Siouan, Iroquoian?
This was the main reason the English chose a peninsula location for the Jamestown settlement.
What is it was easy to defend from attacks by the Spanish ships?
These are the five states that border Virginia.
What is Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina?
Due to an increased interest in other forms of energy this product is no longer considered major in Virginia.
What is coal?
This former president was the leader of the Continental Army the American Revolution.
Who is George Washington?
This village was located on the north bank of the Pamunkey River (later the York River).
What is the Werowocomoco village?
This is the main reason England wanted to establish colonies in North America.
What is to increase wealth and power through trade and resources?
These are Virginia's four major rivers.
What is the James River, the York River, the Rappahannock River, and the Potomac River?
These are three of the main agricultural products in Virginia.
What are vegetables, feeds and grains, dairy products, cattle, and poultry? (Name Three)
This former president helped form the League of Nations.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This is what it means for a tribal nation to be sovereign.
What is being self-governing and making their own laws?
This was a business venture approved by the King of England to start a colony.
What is the Virginia Company of London?
These are the names of Virginia's five geographic regions.
What is the Coastal Plain (Tidewater), the Piedmont, the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Valley and Ridge, and the Appalachian Plateau?
This is the biggest industry in the economy of Virginia.
What is service sector?
This was the fifth president of the United States.
Who is James Monroe?
These three physical geography factors influenced why Indigenous People lived near rivers.
What is food, water, and travel?
This was the main purpose of the Jamestown colony.
What is making money for investors and England?