GEOGRAPHY
NATIVE PEOPLE
COLONIAL VIRGINIA
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
VIRGINIA IN THE NEW NATION
100

This is the largest river in Virginia?

James River

100

What was the name of the powerful chief who led over 30 Algonquian tribes in Virginia?

Who is Powhatan?
100

The founding year of Jamestown.

What is 1607?

100

This document declared the 13 colonies independent from Britain.

What is the Declaration of Independence?

100

He was known as the “Father of the Constitution” from Virginia.

Who was James Madison?

200

This geographic region of Virginia is known for its flat land and is located near the Atlantic Ocean.

What is Coastal Plain/Tidewater

200

This Native American tribe lived in the Piedmont region of Virginia.

Who are the Monacan?

200

The three reasons Jamestown was chosen as the site for the first permanent English settlement.

What are it had a deep harbor for ships, was defensible, and was near fresh water?

200

He was the Virginian who wrote the Declaration of Independence.

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

200

This was the name of the plan proposed by Virginia for representation based on population.

What is the Virginia Plan?

300

This is the name of the peninsula in Virginia surrounded by the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.

What is the Eastern Shore?

300

This type of housing was typically used by the Algonquian-speaking tribes in Virginia.

What are LONGHOUSES?
300

This is the name of the first representative government in Virginia.

What is the House of Burgesses?

300

This is the name of the final battle of the American Revolution, fought in Virginia.

What is the Battle of Yorktown?

300

This as the Virginia city that became the capital after Williamsburg.

What is Richmond?

400

This Virginia geographic region is located west of the Blue Ridge Mountains and has rolling hills.

What is the Valley and Ridge?

400

These are two ways Virginia’s Native Americans contributed to the survival of the Jamestown settlers.

What were growing crops like corn, and shared food and knowledge of the land.

400

This crop became the most important cash crop for Virginia’s colonial economy.

What is tobacco?

400

He was the Virginian who led the Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Who is George Washington?

400

He wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights.

Who is George Mason?

500

This marked the boundary where rivers became unnavigable, leading to settlements and trade centers like Richmond and Fredericksburg.

What is the Fall Line?

500

Corn, beans and squash.

What are the Three Sisters?

500

The reasons why the capital of Virginia moved from Jamestown to Williamsburg in 1699.

What are higher ground, less flooding, and was healthier than swampy Jamestown.

500

He said "Give me liberty or give me death," and encouraged resistance to British rule.

Who was Patrick Henry?

500

This was why Virginia’s support was crucial for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

What is it was a large and infuential state?