Virginia’s Coastal Plain Tidewater Region

1. VIRGINIA’S COASTAL
PLAIN TIDEWATER
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT
TO OUR HISTORY ?

2. Location, Location, Location
•Next to Atlantic Ocean /
Chesapeake Bay
• Provides food and transportation

3. PRODUCTS AND INDUSTRIES
•PRODUCTS:
seafood and peanuts
•INDUSTRIES:
shipbuilding, tourism,
military installations

4. Settlement Areas
•Jamestown is the first
permanent English
settlement in North
America
•Africans were settled
here because the self
sustaining agricultural
crop tobacco

5. CAPITALS OF THIS REGION
1. Jamestown 2. Williamsburg
3. Richmond

6. WARS IN THIS REGION
•First Land Battle of
Revolutionary War
fought at Great Bridge
American Victory at
Yorktown led to surrender of
British
•Sea battle between Monitor and Merrimack during the
Civil War

7. RAILROAD CENTERS
•Richmond
•Norfolk
•Newport News
•All helped to
rebuild the South
after the Civil War