VS 4 STUDY GUIDE

What 3 things were made possible when African men, women, and children were brought to the Virginia colony?

• Tobacco a profitable product

• boats

• Inexpensive form of labor (slaves)

• Tobacco cultivation

• computers

Who provided the labor in the tobacco fields? Choose 3

• horses

• African men

• Women

• Children

• Tractors

What was considered a cash crop in colonial Virginia?

• Clothes

• Tobacco

• Wood

• boats

How did the Virginia colony gain their wealth?

• jobs

• agriculture

• credit cards

• trade

What was the most profitable agricultural product in Virginia?

• corn

• tobacco

• wood

• none of these

What did the settlers do with their cash crops? choose 2

• grew acres of tobacco

• sold it to England to make money

• bought new clothes

• bought houses

Describe the economy of Virginia colony

• tobacco was a cash crop sold to England

• It did not make any profits

• The colony depended on slave labor

• Agriculture was the primary source of wealth

Who settled mostly in the Shenandoah Valley?

• The Powhatans

• Scots-Irish

• English

• Europeans

Why were Africans settled primarily in the Coastal Plains (Tidewater) and Piedmont regions?

• nice place to settled down

• Because agriculture required a great deal of inexpensive labor

• it was close to the water

• It is where they were dropped off

Who primarily settled in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain (Tidewater) regions?

• English

• Europeans

• Scots- Irish

• none of these above