Colonial VA Review

A cash crop is grown to...

• Sell for money. Not to be used by farmers.

• Use by the farmers.

• Eat with everyone else in the colony.

• Create some fun for the colonists.

People often used natural, human or capital ____________ to produce the goods and services they needed.

• resources

• slaves

• tobacco

• fishermen

The economy of Virginia depended on...

• Slave labor growing cotton

• Slave labor growing tobacco

• Slave labor growing apples

• Slave labor tending to horse

True or False:

Tobacco farming was hard and required steady labor.

• True

• False

John bought 3 pounds of fish from the fisherman and said he would repay him when his tobacco crops grew in. John was using ____ and is now in ____.

• Credit; Debt

• Debt; Savings

• Money; Barter

• Barter; Debt

Virginia was a __________ colony but adopted many new cultures as more settlers came.

• African

• French

• British

• Dutch

True or False:

Africans were brought to the Virginia colony against their will where they were enslaved to work on tobacco fields and plantations.

• True

• False

Which of the following was NOT reason the capital moved to Williamsburg?

• Buildings burned down

• Many people had diseases

• Salt water damaged the soil

• Jamestown became too small

Where did Africans and Europeans settle in Virginia?

• Tidewater and Piedmont

• Vally and Ridge

• Blue Ridge Mountains

• Appalachian Plateau

Where did the German and Scots-Irish settle in Virginia?

• Tidewaterr/Piedmont

• Valley and Ridge

• Blue Ridge Mountains

• Appalachian Plateau