Virginia

= Virginia =


 * Where is it located-** Virginia is bordered by North Carolina and Tennessee to the south, Kentucky and West Virginia to the west, West Virginia and Maryland to the north, and Maryland and the Atlantic Ocean to the east . It is between the Mid-Atlantic Region and part of the Plantation South. Virginia's Coastal Plain Tidewater Region is part of the Atlantic Coastal Plain.

**Main Geographic Features-** A coastal plain is a large area of flat or gently rolling land that is bordered by a large area of water. Virginia's Coastal Plain extends inland as far as the Fall Line, a narrow zone of small waterfalls and rapids that occurs at the point where the major rivers pass over ancient rocks of the Piedmont to the eroded sands, clays, of the Coastal Plain. Wide areas of Virginia's Coastal Plain are flat and low lying. Tidal swamps and marshes border the rivers.

**Rivers-** The James River flows across four of Virginia’s physiographic provinces draining approximate one fourth of the Commonwealth. The James rises in the high country along the Allegheny Mountains of western Virginia. An array of small streams tumble off the flanks of Monterey Mountain, Jack Mountain, and Bullpasture Mountain converging to form to southwest-flowing rivers. The Roanoke River is a river in southern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina in the United States The river has its headwaters in the BlueRidge Mountains in Soutwestern Virginia at Layafette in Mo County where the North Fork and South Fork of the river merge. The North Fork, approximately 30 miles ong, rises between two mountain ridges and flows initially southwest, then loops back to the northeast. The Potomac River flows into the Chesapeake Bay, located along the Aid Atlantic coast. The river is approximately 383 miles long. It forms part of the borders between our nation capital and Virginia on the left descending bank and Maryland and Virginia on the river's right descending bank. The York River is formed at <span style="font-family: Helvetica,helvetica,sans-serif;">Westpoint approximately 41 miles east of Richmond, by the confluence of two other rivers. It drains into the Chesapeake bay towards the southeast, entering the bay approximately 5 miles east of <span style="font-family: Helvetica,helvetica,sans-serif;">Yorktown, which sits along its southern shore.

**Mountains-** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: fuchsia; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; font-weight: normal;">Mount Rogers is the highest point in the state of <span style="font-family: Helvetica,helvetica,sans-serif;">Virginia with an elevation of 5,729 feet above mean sea level. **Harbors-** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; font-weight: normal;">Hampton Roads is the name for both a body of water which surrounds it in southeastern Virginia. Hampton Roads is notable for its year round ice free harbor. This series of harbors have been established as early as the eighteenth century.

**Farming Conditions-** American agriculture evolved in seemingly contradictory ways. It became an increasingly commercialized, technologically sophisticated, and highly capitalized business. At the same time, agriculture went from being virtually a universal enterprise to one practiced by only a relative handful of people and from being the mainspring of the American economy to a peripheral economic enterprise. As agriculture became modernized, farm life became decreasingly unique and distinct fro m life off the farm. The first settlers who settled in Jamestown were in a swamp the land was low about at sea level. It was marshy and muddy. There was stagnant water from runoff since they were at sea level.

**History** In May 1607, 104 Englishmen dropped anchor and began to build America's first permanent English colony in Jamestown, Virginia. It was the Virginia Company of London that was granted a charter to establish a colony. The colonists built a triangle-shaped log fort on a peninsula in the James River, 60 miles from the Chesapeake Bay, and named it James Fort in honor of King James I of England. And then in 1624 the colony of Virginia’s charter was surrendered to the virgin queen Elizabeth because it could not recover from the harsh attacks by the Native Americans that the English where able to wipeout. Most if not all of the English natives traveled to Virginia or Jamestown because of the religious intolerance that they suffered in the United Kingdom. This settlement was during the rain of queen Elizabeth who was a protestant, thus although all other religions where tolerated during the time of her kingship, people of other religions left England for the new world. Native Americans lived in large co mmunities in the Tidewater region, as the lowlands of eastern Virginia. When the English founded the colony of Jamestown on the James River in the Tidewater area. At the time an Algonquin speaking tribe called the Powhatan Confederacy occupied it.

**Economics** When the first settlers came to Jamestown in 1607. The settlement came to be a failure in its beginning years. By 1609, the winter and horrid planting conditions nearly wiped out the population of Jamestown. It was not until the second wave of colonists that came in 1610 who finally adapted to the different climates and figured out from the Native Americans that corn and tobacco where two crops that prospered in that area. Tobacco was the main source of commerce in the colony of Virginia because it was quite easy to grow which is known as a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: purple; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; color: white;">cash crop. A Dutch man of war brought the first group of slaves into Jamestown in 1619. The slaves were exchanged for a supply of corn. After this a method of trade developed. This was known as the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: purple; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; color: white;">Triangle Trade, which involved a buyer which were the colonies who received the African slaves, a seller in which case was Africa, and a third party which was great Britain who was the “manufacturer” who received profit from this trade. Because of this trade system, the colonies and Europe strived off of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: purple; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; color: white;">Mercantilism. This statement hold true because of the premise that the colonies exports brought money to the mother land or country.

**Social** Since the English founded this colony the language came from their native lands. White Anglicans, thus being the first colony the have an Anglican church, dominated Virginia. Under Governor William Berkeley, the colony was a safe place for supporters of the monarchy and the Anglican Church when civil war brought the Puritans to power in England in the 1640s. The Puritans brought Virginia under their rule in 1652, but the English monarchy was restored in 1660. The Churches in colonial Virginia where boring and dull. Because of this a form of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: purple; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; color: white;">Salutary Neglect or the questioning of authority arose throughout the church. This, triggered <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: purple; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; color: white;">Great Awakening, which changed the practice of the Church. The role of women where different in the days of the colonies. There jobs where to tend to the children and to their homes as the men where to tend to their jobs outside the homes. Women had no write to vote, only wealthy land owning men had to right to vote. A) Government- Virginia was set up under a Royal Charter. But it had its own form of limited government. The population there served under the queen but, it was not until the Native Americans attack over Jamestown and the English military exterminating them that cause Virginia to surrender its charter to England.