Virginia Colony

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Virginia_Colony
GPTKB entity
Properties (56)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Colony
gptkbp:alliance gptkb:Powhatan_Confederacy
gptkbp:archaeologicalFindings gptkb:Jamestown
gptkbp:borderedBy gptkb:Kentucky
gptkb:Maryland
gptkb:North_Carolina
gptkb:Tennessee
gptkb:West_Virginia
gptkbp:capital gptkb:Jamestown
gptkbp:conflict gptkb:Anglo-Powhatan_Wars
gptkbp:dissolved 1776
gptkbp:economy Tobacco cultivation
gptkbp:established gptkb:English_settlers
gptkbp:exportedTo Tobacco
gptkbp:founded 1607
gptkbp:geographicalFeature gptkb:Chesapeake_Bay
gptkbp:governmentType Royal_colony
gptkbp:governs gptkb:Sir_William_Berkeley
gptkbp:historical_significance First successful English colony in America
gptkbp:historicalSignificance gptkb:Virginia_Charter
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Virginia Colony
gptkbp:is_part_of gptkb:British_America
gptkbp:location gptkb:North_America
gptkbp:notable_event Establishment of the first representative assembly
gptkbp:notableFigures gptkb:Pocahontas
gptkbp:notablePerson gptkb:L._Douglas_Wilder
gptkb:Woodrow_Wilson
gptkb:Tim_Kaine
gptkb:George_Washington
gptkb:John_Smith
gptkb:Robert_E._Lee
gptkb:Thomas_Jefferson
gptkb:Warren_G._Harding
gptkb:James_Monroe
gptkb:John_Tyler
gptkb:George_Mason
gptkb:James_Madison
gptkb:Zachary_Taylor
gptkb:William_Byrd_II
gptkb:Edmund_Pendleton
gptkb:Martha_Washington
gptkb:Patrick_Henry
gptkb:John_Marshall
gptkb:Richard_Henry_Lee
gptkb:Mark_Warner
gptkb:Harry_F._Byrd_Sr.
gptkb:Henry_Lee_III
gptkb:Ralph_Northam
gptkb:Glenn_Youngkin
gptkb:Jim_Webb
gptkbp:previousName gptkb:Virginia
gptkbp:products Slaves
gptkbp:reform gptkb:House_of_Burgesses
gptkbp:religion Anglicanism
gptkbp:significantEvent gptkb:Bacon's_Rebellion
gptkbp:triggerType Agricultural colony