Virginia Colony by JAMESON SCHELLINGER

Colonial Region

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Virginia was one of the 5 colonies in the Southern Region.

Virginia

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How Virginia was Founded

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When it started

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Virginia was founded in 1607.

Who Founded Virginia

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John Smith led a group of explorers who founded Virginia. John Smith was mainly an explorer, but he also was an adventurer, soldier, and author. He married his wife, Pocahontas, (Whose name was changed to Rebecca) in 1614. He died of an illness on June 21, 1631.

Map of Colony

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Major Colonial Industries

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Around the time that Virginia was founded, tobacco was Virginia's main cash crop. Virginia also made a lot of money from selling textiles and furniture.

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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/tobacco-in-colonial-virginia/

Flag Picture

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About the Flag

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Virginia's first official flag, designed by Van Buren, was made in 1861. The flag has a woman standing on top of a soldier. The crown on the ground is supposed to represent peace, showing the big role Virginia had defeating Britain in the American Revolution. The words at the bottom of the flag mean “Thus always to tyrants,” and this means that leaders who take advantage of their power will always be overthrown.

Tribes

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Boardering Colonies

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Virginia is Bordered by North Carolina, New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Atlantic Ocean

Nansemond Tribe

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The non-Christianized Nansemond remained on their tribal lands, but in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, as increasing numbers of Europeans moved to the Nansemond River area, the tribal members had to relocate their tribal lands and their reservation on several occasions. The Nansemond tribe sold its last known reservation lands—300 acres on the Nottoway River in Southampton County—in 1792. By this time only three non-Christianized Nansemond survived; the last died in 1806.

Pamunkey Tribe

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The Pamunkey Indians were the largest tribe within the powerful Powhatan Chiefdom when the English arrived to settle Jamestown in 1607.Today, they are over 200 members strong and have 1,200 acres of reservation lands established through treaties signed with the English in 1646 and 1677. Their federal recognition will establish for the Pamunkey tribe a government-to-government relationship with the federal government of the United States.

Mattaponi Tribe

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Members of the Tribe reside on the same Reservation Lands confirmed to the Mattaponi in 1658, however the land base is much smaller than the original tract set aside for the Tribe. Currently the Reservation measures about 150 acres including wetlands. The Reservation is located in King William County, VA.