Gr. 4 Virginia Studies - ECONOMY

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What important event happened in 1619 at the Jamestown colony?

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Africans were brought over for slave labor

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Seafood and peanuts are featured products from which Virginia region?

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Coastal Plain (Tidewater) Region

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To meet the massive demand for slaves, where did the Europeans look for slaves?

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Africa

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What is the most profitable cash crop the Virginia Colony sold to England?

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tobacco

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____________________: trading or exchanging of goods and services without the use of money.

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Barter

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What is a good or service owed to another?

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debt

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What is it called when someone buys a good or service now and pays for it later?

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credit

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What is a crop that is grown to sell for money rather than for use by the growers?

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cash crop

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Colonial Virginia did not have banks, and paper and coin money was rare. What did many colonists use as money?

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tobacco

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Which group of people provided the primary source of labor in Virginia's tobacco fields?

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African Slaves