SS Review #2

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If a company wanted to build houses in VA near the ocean, which region would it choose?

• PIedmont

• Coastal Plain

• Valley and Ridge

• Appalachian Plateau

Why was Virginia's capital moved from Williamsburg to Richmond?

• It was difficult to attack

• It was easy to collect taxes

• It was easy to control fishing in the Chesapeake Bay

• It was difficult to trade with American Indians (First Americans)

In 1607, the Jamestown colonists chose an easily defended site that was located on

• a peninsula

• an island

• the Chesapeake Bay

• the Eastern Shore

After the Revolution, many Virginians moved to the west and south because they

• were fleeing the battles

• wanted to live in another country

• were looking for better farmland

• wanted land that was already developed

The type of shelter built by American Indians (First Americans) depended on their

• religion

• language

• government

• environment

Virginia Rivers; James, York, Rappahannock, and Potomac

Which sentence explains a common geographic characteristic of these rivers.

• Each creates an island

• Each flows into the Dismal Swamp

• Each creates an isthmus

• Each flows into the Chesapeake Bay

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What type of land would be found in the Piedmont region?

• lake

• desert

• hills

• swamp

River travel stops at the fall line because of

• waterfalls

• mountains

• peninsulas

• swamps