Geography
Native Americans
Miscellaneous
Colonial Virginia
American Revolution
100

Name one of the two waterways are natural borders to Virginia?

What is Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean?

100

Which of the following is NOT a currently recognized Indian tribe of Virginia: Monocan, Chickahomini, Mattaponi, or Cherokee

Cherokee

100

How many professional sports teams are in Virginia?

None

100

Where was the first permanent English settlement in North America?

Jamestown

100
What document states that authority to govern belongs to the people?
What is the Declaration of Independence
200

What city in Virginia has the largest population?

Virginia Beach

200
Why did Christopher Columbus call the people he found in the lands he discovered Indians?
He thought he was in the Indies
200

What nickname was given to Virginia due to its historical loyalty to the British crown?

Old Dominion

200

What crop was the Virginia colony's primary source of wealth?

Tobacco

200
Virginian's were divided about the war. Some remained neutral and some were loyal to England, but what did most consider themselves?
What are Patriots
300

What is the largest river in Virginia?

The James River

300

The essential crops for Native American agriculture were corn, beans, and what?

Squash

300

How many US presidents were born in Virginia

Eight

300

Where did the Virginia colony turn for a steady and inexpensive source of labor needed to make tobacco planting successful?

What are slaves from Africa

300
Who wrote the document expressing the reasons for colonial independence from England?
Who is Thomas Jefferson
400
Virginia's mountains are part of which larger mountain system?
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
400
What did Virginia's First Americans use for clothes?
Animal Skins
400

What Virginia city is home to the world's largest naval station?

Norfolk

400

The first representative government in British North America was established in 1619. What was it called?

The House of Burgesses

400
Who spoke out against taxation without representation by saying, "give me liberty of give me death?"
Who was Patrick Henry
500

What is the tallest mountain in Virginia?

Mount Rogers

500

What is the name of the large Indian town used for hundreds of years before the arrival of the settlers: Werewocomoco, Roanoke, Williamsburg, or Wyoming?

Werewocomoco

500

Which president lived at Mountpelier?

James Madison

500
What is the importance of women arriving to Jamestown in 1620?
So settlers could establish families and stay in Jamestown a long time
500
Where did the British army surrender, bringing an end to the Revolutionary War?
Yorktown
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