Topography
This region of VA has flat land and is located near the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay. This region includes the Eastern Shore.
What is the Coastal Plain?
Virginia mainly has three prominent Indigenous language groups.
Who are the Algonquian, the Siouan, and the Iroquoian?
In 1699, the capital of Virginia relocated from Jamestown to
- - -
due to contaminated water, unhealthy living conditions, and fire.
What is Williamsburg?
Most white Virginians were small farmers and made a living from their land. They lived in what type of homes?
Colonists who were against the British king.
What are Patriots.
This region of VA includes the Great Valley of Virginia and other valleys separated by ridges.
What is the Valley and Ridge?
Native people used - - - to build shelters, make clothing from deer hide, and create tools.
What are natural resources?
This made it possible for more settlers to start families and helped establish Jamestown as a permanent colony in Virginia in 1620.
What is the arrival of additional English women in 1620?
People living in Colonial Virginia had to rely on barrels, ships, and tools to help them earn a living and care for their families. What type of resources does this describe?
What is capital resources?
"Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Many early Virginia cities developed along the natural border between the Coastal Plain (Tidewater) and Piedmont regions where the land rises sharply and where the waterfalls prevent further travel on the river.
What is the Fall Line?
This Native American language was spoken primarily in the Piedmont region – the Monacan were part of this group.
What is Siouan language?
In 1619, the royal governor called a meeting of the General Assembly for the first time. This included two representatives known as ----
What are Burgesses?
People that move from one country to another to make a new start
What are immigrants?
This began the American Revolution.
What were the shots fired at Lexington and Concord in 1775?
This Virginia river flows into the Chesapeake Bay. Richmond and Jamestown are located along this river.
What is the James River?
Many American Indians lived in towns situated along the - - -, which made for good farming, good fishing, and easy travel.
What are rivers?
While different from slavery, this was a system of forced labor, and was already a practice in the Virginia colony.
What is indentured servitude? or an indentured servant
A crop that is grown to sell for money rather than for use by the growers
What is a cash crop?
He inspired the Declaration of Independence after writing the Virginia Declaration of Rights.
Who is George Mason?
This body of water is located in the Coastal Plain (Tidewater) region. It is a shallow natural lake surrounded by the Dismal Swamp.
What is Lake Drummond?
Forests, which have a variety of trees, cover most of the land. Virginia’s American Indians are referred to as - - - Indians.
What are Eastern Woodland?
The English colonists found life in Virginia harder than they had expected as many of the English colonists did not have experience with growing crops or manual labor; therefore the colonists had to - - -for survival.
What is rely on the knowledge of the Indigenous people?
Most worked in tobacco fields and had no rights, and a little chance for a better life
Who are enslaved African Americans?
He served as a spy in the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
Who is James Armistead Lafayette?