The two major bodies of water that border Virginia.
What are the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean?
100
The language that was primarily spoken in the Tidewater Region?
What was Algonquian?
100
Why the arrival of women to Jamestown in 1620 was important.
What is, so that settlers could establish families and stay in Jamestown for a long time?
100
Not only was I an athlete, but I also wrote many books and became a famous author even before I died.
Who was Arthur Ashe?
100
The person who spoke out against taxation without representation by saying, "Give me liberty of give me death!"
What was Patrick Henry?
200
The region that can be found just west of the Fall Line.
What is the Piedmont?
200
The reason why Christopher Columbus called the people he found in the lands he discovered "Indians."
What is, he thought he was in the Indies?
200
Why England wanted to establish an American Colony.
What is, to increase wealth and power?
200
The 28th President of the United States who wrote a plan for world peace.
What was Woodrow Wilson?
200
Virginians were divided about the war. Some remained neutral and some were loyal to England, but most considered themselves ____________.
What are Patriots?
300
The term for an area of elevated land that is flat on top?
What is a plateau?
300
An example of an American Indian artifact.
What are arrowheads, pottery, or tools?
300
The arrival of Africans made it possible to ______________.
What is, expand the tobacco economy?
300
This Virginia citizen was a military leader in WWII who helped create a plan for world peace.
Who was George C. Marshall?
300
The person who wrote the document giving the reasons for colonial independence from England.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
400
The larger mountain system of which Virginia's mountains are a part.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
400
What Virginia's First Americans used to make their clothes.
What is animal skin?
400
2 reasons (hardships) why the location of Jamestown was not a good place to settle.
It was marshy and lacked safe drinking water... other acceptable answers.
400
This Virginia governor appointed more African Americans and women to state government positions than any other governor in order to promote racial equality.
Who was Linwood Holton?
400
The document that states that authority to govern belongs to the people.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
500
The region that is located closest to the Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay.
What is the Coastal Plain?
500
What Virginia's Indians are sometimes called (because the forest was at the heart of Indian life.)
What are the Eastern Woodland Indians?
500
The first elected legislative body of government in English America.
What is the House of Burgesses?
500
Which lawyer from Virginia most likely said, "Segregation in schools is unconstitutional. Schools need to be desegregated. Separate is not equal!" Hint: Think about the court case in which he played a key role.
Who was Oliver Hill?
500
Where the British army surrendered, bringing an end to the Revolutionary War.