Yes it is, but when Raleigh founded the first colony there and later the 2 other colonies, it was considered Virginia because North Carolina was not in existence yet. Today we consider it NC but when they established those colonies it was considered Virginia. Raleigh named the Roanoke colony Virginia so it is how you perceive history and translate it to today's borders.
Yet the point still stands that it is not part of modern Virginia. Historical events in the Louisiana Territory are not relevant to the history of modern Louisiana, because they took place outside of the borders of the modern region. Historical regions and modern regions, especially those with colonial pasts where toponyms were not well founded and fluidly changed, are not usually interchangeable.
Yes, the wording of the clue is correct, but no, the federal government cannot "do whatever it likes". It has to follow the constitution. After years of court battles the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Lee family that the Arlington estate had been taken unconstitutionally. (When the Lee family sent someone to pay their land taxes the money was refused on the grounds that they weren't being paid in person, and the estate was then auctioned for nonpayment of taxes. The US government bought the property cheaply on the courthouse steps.) By the end of the long court appeals process many burials had been made on the estate, a fort had been built, and a large freedmen's town had been established. Robert and Mary were both deceased by then and their son, Custis Lee, agreed to the congressional offer of fair market price of $150,000 and sold the estate to the government. (BTW, President Johnson issued amnesty and pardons to all Confederates at the end of the war.)
they moved there temporarily for a few days yes, but it was never the capital of the CSA. Jefferson Davis and his cabinet were only there from 3-10 April 1865.
It is today with our borders. But when Raleigh established the 3 colonies there he didn't name them North Carolina, he named it Virginia. The whole area was claimed by Raleigh which he declared Virginia. Jamestown and Roanoke area were Virginia when these colonies were established. So technically Roanoke is considered part of Virginia history. But it also is how you perceive the history. Today we consider it NC but when these early colonies were established they were Virginia. The Carolina Province wasn't declared until 1629.
In 1585, QE granted what she called "Virginia" to Raleigh after he visited what is now the NC outer banks. The charter of the Colony of Virginia was 1606 and covered most of the east coast of the US. By 1609, 2nd charter included most of the Great Lakes and central and western Canada. In short, you can define most North American history from then as "Virginia", but most would restrict it to the current borders. At the same time, the history of the Nansemond Indian tribe before settlement would still be part of Virginia history. I grew up and was educated in VA and lived 20 years in NC and neither would consider the Lost Colony as VA history
I get that Virginia historically more important in the colonial and antebellum eras, but I feel like it's unfair that there are no questions on here after 1865? Like, there could have been questions on here about Jim Crow or Loving v. Virginia or the construction of the Pentagon or the Virginia Tech shooting. I'm not an expert on Virginia history, but I'm sure a few more things in the past 150 years could have been scrounged up.