Geography
Which two waterways are natural borders to Virginia?
Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean
What language was primarily spoken in the Tidewater Region?
Algonquian
What is the importance of women arriving to Jamestown in 1620?
So settlers could establish families and stay in Jamestown a long time
What is the name for a crop that is grown to sell money rather than use it by the farmers who grew it?
Cash Crop
What document states that authority to govern belongs to the people?
the Declaration of Independence
Which Region can be found just west of the Fall Line?
Piedmont
Why did Christopher Columbus call the people he found in the lands he discovered Indians?
He thought he was in the Indies
Why did England want to establish an American Colony?
To increase wealth and power
What was the Virginia colony's primary source of wealth?
agriculture and tobacco
Virginian's were divided about the war. Some remained neutral and some were loyal to England, but what did most consider themselves?
Patriots
What is an area of elevated land that is flat on top?
a Plateau
What is an example of an American Indian Artifact?
arrowheads pottery or tools
What did the arrival of Africans make possible?
Expansion of the tobacco economy
Where did the Virginia colony turn for te steady and inexpensive source of labor needed to make tobacco planting successful?
Enslaved Africans
Who wrote the document expressing the reasons for colonial independence from England?
Thomas Jefferson
Virginia's mountains are part of which larger mountain system?
Appalachian Mountains
What did Virginia's First Americans use for clothes?
Animal Skins
What was wrong with the location of Jamestown?
It was Marshy and lacked safe drinking water.
Contaminated water, dirty living conditions causing diseases to spread and several fires were the reasons for what event?
the moving of the capital from Jamestown to Williamsburg
Who spoke out against taxation without representation by saying, "give me liberty of give me death?"
Patrick Henry
Which region is located near the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay?
Coastal Plain
What is the name that Virginia's Indians are sometimes called because the forest was at the heart of Indian life?
Eastern Woodland Indians
What was the first elected legislative body of government in English America?
House of Burgesses
The capital of Virginia moved to be more central in the state, with better location and farther from British attack. Where did it move?
Richmond
Where did the British army surrender, bringing an end to the Revolutionary War?
Yorktown