Colonial Life VS 4a.

What do you call a crop grown specifically to sell for money?

• Profit crop
• Sale crop
• Cash crop
• Barter Charter

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

• American Indians
• Scots-Irish
• African Slaves
• Denture Savers

What was the primary industry / economic activity in colonial Virginia?

• Gold mining
• Agriculture
• Baked Goods
• Computer's

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

• corn
• cotton
• tobacco
• potatoes

Where was tobacco sold as a cash crop?

• Virginia
• England
• Africa
• Werewocomoco

Who worked on tobacco, other crops and livestock?

• Enslaved African Americans
• Free African Americans
• White Virginians
• Women

What was often used as a form of currency in colonial Virginia?

• Corn
• Animal skins
• Tobacco
• Credit cards

Why did the Virginia Colony need African slave labor?

• It was a reliable and cheap source of labor.
• Europeans were terrible farmers
• Most European countries used slaves
• Africans wanted to come to the New world

What did the Virginia colony’s economy depend on for a long time?

• inexpensive labor
• child labor
• free labor
• expensive labor

Food sources were limited for colonists.

• True
• False