VS. 4 Life in the Colony Review

The colony of Jamestown, finally began to make a profit by producing what crop?

• Tobacco

• Rice

• Indigo

• Cotton

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

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

Which four reasons explained why Virginia's capital moved from Jamestown to Williamsburg?

• Buildings destroyed by fire

• spread of diseases

• Revolutionary War

• Contaminated drinking water

• Unhealthy living conditions

What caused the Africans to settle Primarily in the Coastal

Plains (Tidewater) and Piedmont regions?

• The land provided resources for building homes.

• Agriculture required a great deal of inexpensive labor.

• The eastern part of Virginia was closest to Africa.

• Migration routes were important for trading.

A crop that is grown to sell for money rather than by use of the growers is called_____________ crop.

• Vegetable

• Fruit

• Cash

• Flower

In which capital did colonists live if they had salty drinking water, a fire that destroyed buildings, and unhealthy living conditions that caused disease?

• Williamsburg

• Richmond

• Jamestown

• Roanoke