VS 4AB Colonial Life in Virginia

The success of tobacco as a cash crop encouraged this in Virginia...

• sharecropping

• slavery

• co-farming

A cash crop is

• money growing from the ground

• something you plant for yourself to enjoy

• something that is grown to sell for money

The economy of the Virginia colony depended on _______ as a primary source of wealth.

• agriculture

• hunting

• fish

• ship builiding

What became the most profitable agricultural product because it was sold in England as a cash crop?

• Corn

• Tobacco

• Wheat

• Wool

The successful planting of tobacco depended on a steady and inexpensive source of _______.

• labor

• food

• livestock

The Virginia Colony turned to ____________ to make money and expand their resources.

• enslaved labor

• their neighbors

• farmers

• ship captains

Virginia depended on slavery for more than_____.

• 500 days

• 2 years

• 200 years

• 2000 years

African men, women, and children were forcibly brought to the Virginia colony and enslaved to work on the ____.

• ships

• mountains

• plantations

• busses

The culture of colonial Virginia reflects...

• beliefs

• dreams

• customs

• architecture

Examples of architecture include:

• barns

• homes

• places of worship

• fences