Virginia Studies Review

What is a cash crop?

• A crop that is grown for use by the growers

• A crop grown to be used as medicine

• A crop that is grown to sell to make money

What did the successful planting of tobacco depend on?

• The colonists and women

• Steady and inexpensive source of labor (slavery)

• The Virginia Company of London

• Parliament

All of the following are examples of agriculture EXCEPT

• Parks

• Places of Worship

• Barns

• Homes

Germans and Scots-Irish settled along the migration route which was located in ---

• Coastal Plain (Tidewater)

• Piedmont

• Shenandoah Valley

• Blue Ridge Mountains

After the settlers arrived, American Indians were forced to move

• inland

• to another state

• north

• east

English and other Europeans settled primarily in the

• Shenandoah Valley

• Coastal Plain and Piedmont

• Appalachian Plateau

• Blue Ridge Mountains

Why did the Africans settle primarily in the same regions as the English?

• They had the opportunity to own land

• The location was good for growing other crops besides tobacco

• It was along the migration route

• The English depended on slave labor to work the tobacco fields

All of the following are reasons the capital moved from Jamestown to Williamsburg EXCEPT

• Unhealthy living conditions caused diseases

• The drinking water was contaminated

• Tobacco was harsh on the land and ruined fields

• Fire destroyed wooden and brick buildings at Jamestown

What is another name for England?

• West Indies

• Great Britain

• Germany

• The British Isles

What is credit?

• Buying a good or service and paying for it later

• A good or service owed to another

• Money put away to save or spend later

• Trading goods and services without the use of money