Virginia Regions
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Virginia Indians
Jamestown
Colonial Virginia
100
How many native american tribes were there in virginia?
What is 11
100
Virginia resource used as fossil fuel?
What is coal?
100
The first people to live in Virginia.
Who are the American Indians or Eastern Woodland Indians?
100
This arrival made it possible for more settlers to start families, which helped to establish Jamestown as a permanent colony in Virginia.
What is women?
100
Trading or exchanging of goods and services without the use of money.
What is bartering?
200
Much of the Coastal Plain is bordered to the east by this major water feature
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
200
This region is located in the Southwestern part of the state and mining is a major industry.
What is the Appalachian Plateau region?
200
People who study all kinds of material evidence left by people from the past.
Who are archaeologists?
200
When Africans arrived in Virginia against their will, it caused something to expand.
What is the tobacco economy?
200
Buying a good or service now and paying for it later.
What is credit?
300
Old, rounded mountains, part of the Appalachian mountain system, located between the Piedmont and Valley and Ridge regions and a source of many rivers.
What is the Blue Ridge Mountains?
300
Used for timber and can be identified because the trees are typically planted in rows.
What are cultivated forests?
300
Winter is coming. Name two items that Virginia Indians most likely have used for clothing to prepare for the winter.
What are animal skins and furs?
300
Two changes in the colony that resulted in survival. ****Bonus points if you can name more than two!
What is the arrival of ships bringing supplies and new settlers, the forced work program, strong leadership of John Smith, the emphasis of agriculture, the development of new settlements that spread away from the unhealthy environment of Jamestown?
300
The most profitable agricultural product because it was sold in England as a cash crop.
What is tobacco?
400
The locations on the map (Richmond and Jamestown) are near this river
What is the James River?
400
Name five examples of Virginia’s mineral resources.
What are coal, limestone, sand, granite and gravel?
400
The artifacts below would most likely be found at this archaeological site.
What is Werowocomoco?
400
Three hardships faced by settlers.
What was the site that they chose to live on lacked safe drinking water, a drought reduced the amount of food, the settlers lacked survival skills, and settlers died of starvation and disease?
400
Africans were brought primarily to these two regions.
What are Coastal Plain (Tidewater) and Piedmont regions?
500
The four major rivers of Virginia shown on the map. List them in order: A, B, C, and D.
What is A- Potomac, B- Rappahannock, C- York D- James
500
Name five states that border Virginia.
What are Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina?
500
Name the three American Indian language groups living in Virginia in the 1600s. Be sure to correctly identify which group was in which location. 
What are Iroquoian, Siouan, Algonquian?
500
Geographic influences for selecting Jamestown as the settlement site. Need 4!
What are: the water was deep enough for ships to dock, the settlers thought they had a fresh supply of water, instructions from England said to go inland, and the peninsula would have been easy to defend against a Spanish attack from sea.
500
Describe two reasons why the capital was relocated
What are fire destroyed wooden and brick buildings in Jamestown, Williamsburg was an established town, unhealthy living conditions in Jamestown caused disease, drinking water in Jamestown was contaminated?