Virginia Geography
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The first people who came to North America were these wandering sort of people, without permanent homes.
Nomads
This man named Virginia in honor of the Virgin Queen, Queen Elizabeth I of England.
Walter Raleigh
Before the Revolution, George Washington served in this seven year war, which began in 1755.
The French and Indian War
Which geographic region would have estuaries in it?
The Coastal Plain
Scientists who study past humans through the artifacts that they leave behind are called these.
Archaeologists
The first permanent English settlement in North America was named this, and settled in what year?
Jamestown; 1607
After the 1644 Powhatan Indian Massacre, the English and the Powhatans signed a treaty which forced the Indians to move in this direction.
West
This British tax law, passed in 1765, forced colonists to pay a tax on all legal documents, advertisements, newspapers, and even playing cards.
The Stamp Act
As you pass through the Coastal Plain to the Piedmont, you will reach this feature, where rivers fall from high ground to low.
There were Algonquian and Iroquoian speakers in Virginia. What was the third language group?
Siouan
This colonial leader forced early Virginians to work in order to eat, and saved the colony of Jamestown.
Many Virginians joined Bacon's Rebellion because they were losing money to the government and because of this other problem.
Indian attacks
On December 16th, 1773, Bostonians dressed up as Indians, boarded British merchant ships, and threw chests of tea in the harbor in order to protest the tea tax. What was this event called?
The Boston Tea Party
This is the largest physical region in Virginia.
The Piedmont
Indians could not get all of the goods that they needed where they lived, so they did this with other Indian tribes--even some from Florida and Mexico!
Traded
Many of the first settlers in Virginia came over as these, men and women who worked under a master for several years, and then were freed.
Indentured servants
Virginians often planted huge farms of tobacco, called these.
Plantations
Who said, "I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"?
Patrick Henry
This is the smallest physical region in Virginia
The Appalachian Plateau
Many Indians lived in these long, narrow buildings.
Longhouses
This word is a synonym for representative that Virginians used to describe members of their legislature.
Burgess
Huge farms of tobacco needed lots of people to work on them, so many Virginians began to use these to do the work for them.
Slaves
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence and when was it put into effect (exact date)?
Thomas Jefferson; July 4th, 1776