Virginia Geography
This large body of water is where travelers crossed from England to North America.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The Powhatan people lived in this region of Virginia.
What is the Coastal Plains/Tidewater?
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This war caused the British to become broke & begin taxing the colonists more.
What is the French & Indian War?
This first President of the United States was from Virginia.
Who is George Washington?
This river separates northern Virginia and Maryland.
What is the Potomac River?
This language was spoken by the Powhatan people.
What is Algonquian?
This crop helped Jamestown become successful.
What is tobacco?
The British king the colonists were angry with.
Who was King George?
This Jamestown settler helped make tobacco an important cash crop.
Who is John Rolfe?
This region of Virginia is flat and located near the ocean.
What is the Coastal Plains (Tidewater) region?
This English explorer helped make Jamestown a permanent settlement.
Who is John Smith?
This legislative group helped make laws in the colony starting in 1619.
What is the House of Burgesses?
"Give me liberty or give me death!" was said by this Virginian.
Who was Patrick Henry?
This enslaved Virginian became a spy for the Patriots during the American Revolution.
Who is James Lafayette?
This region is known for farming and rolling hills.
What is the Piedmont?
This is another name for the Native people who lived in Virginia.
Who were the Eastern Woodland Indians.
This system brought workers to Virginia in exchange for passage.
What is an indentured servant?
The document that declared independence from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This Virginian is known as the "Father of the Constitution."
Who is James Madison?
This region is known for mountains, valleys, and coal mining.
What is the Appalachian Plateau?
This Native person helped the Jamestown settlement survive by translating their language.
Who was Pocahontas (Matoaka)?
This group was forced into slavery after being kidnapped from Africa.
Who were enslaved Africans?
This Virginian was the main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This king signed a charter to establish the North American English colonies.
Who is King James I?