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| Atlantic Ocean | Provided Transportation links between Virginia and other places (ex: Europe, Africa, Caribbean) |
| Chesapeake Bay | Provided a Safe Harbor. Was a source of food and transportation |
| Maryland | Borders Virginia to the North/Northeast |
| West Virginia | Borders Virginia to the Northwest. Conflict between the eastern counties of Virginia that relied on slavery and the western counties that not favor slavery led to the creation of West Virginia. |
| Kentucky | Borders Virginia to the West |
| Tennessee | Borders Virginia to the Southwest |
| North Carolina | Borders Virginia to the South |
| Fall Line | The natural border between the Piedmont and Tidewater regions. Waterfalls prevent further travel on the river. |
| Lake Drummond | Shallow natural lake surrounded by the Dismal Swamp |
| Werowocomoco | A large Indian town used by Indian leaders and as the headquarters of the leader Powhatan in 1607 |
| Jamestown | The first permanent English settlement. Located on an island in the James River. |
| Angola | Portuguese sailors captured African men and women from this country. |
| Shenandoah Valley | Germans and Scots-Irish settled here along the migration route |
| Williamsburg | 2nd capital of Virginia |
| Richmond | 3rd and final capital of Virginia. Capital of the Confederacy. Was burned when it fell to General Ulysses S. Grant near the end of the war. |
| Charlottesville | Jack Jouett rode on horseback through the backwoods to Charlottesville to warn Thomas Jefferson that the British were coming to arrest him. |
| Great Bridge | The first land battle of the American Revolution fought in Virginia. |
| Norfolk | The British colonial governor fled from here when the American colonists were victorious |
| Yorktown | The American victory here resulted in the surrender of the British army, which led to the end of the Revolutionary War. |
| Cumberland Gap | Settlers crossed the Appalachian Mountains through this gap as they migrated to new lands in the west. |
| Harper’s Ferry | John Brown led a raid. He was trying to start a slave rebellion. |
| Bull Run/Manassas | First major clash of the Civil War. |
| Fredericksburg, Virginia | General Robert E. Lee, Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, defeated the Union troops. |
| Virginia Waters Near Norfolk and Hampton | Battle of the Ironclads , the Monitor and the Merrimack |
| Appomattox Court House | Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865. Last battle of the Civil War |
| Tazewell County | Coal deposits were discovered |
| Northern Virginia | Experienced growth due to an increase in the number of federal government jobs |
| Northern Virginia and Tidewater | These regions have grown due to computer technology |
