Colonial Life VS.4

An example of agriculture is__________.

• A person farming

• A person eating

• A person writing on the board

• A person riding on a ship

What is a cash crop?

• A specific crop that growers are paid to grow.

• A crop that is grown mainly for use by the grower.

• A crop grown primarily to make money.

• A specific crop that growers plant to use as medicine.

The successful planting of tobacco depended on a steady and inexpensive source of labor provided by____________.

• English men, women, and children

• Spanish men, women, and children

• African men, women, and children

• American men, women, and children

Besides human and natural resources, what other resources were used to produce the goods and services they needed in colonial Virginia?

• goods

• services

• money

• capital

Who settled primarily in the Shenandoah Valley, which was along the migration route?

• Germans and Scots-Irish

• Germans and Monacan

• Cherokee and Powhatan

• English and Africans

Scots-Irish mostly settled in which area of Virginia?

• Shenandoah Valley

• Eastern Shore

• Great Dismal Swamp

• Near the fall line

In colonial Virginia, what did many farmers use as money to pay for goods and services?

• Paper money

• Loans from banks

• Tobacco

• Enslaved Africans

Which of the following is a true statement?

• Farmers could not use crops to pay off their debts.

• Colonial Virginia did not have banks.

• Credit was not used in colonial Virginia.

• Most people in colonial Virginia did not have paper money.

Trading beads for fur is an example of ___________.

• credit

• barter

• debt

• saving

If Robert's friend lends him $40 to buy a horse, Robert now owes his friend money. The money Robert owes is_______.

• barter

• savings

• credit

• debt