VS.4 & VS.5

What is a cash crop?

• a specific crop that growers plant to use as medicine
• 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

The successful planting of tobacco depended on a steady and inexpensive source of labor. This labor was provided by...

• Spanish men, women, and children
• English men, women, and children
• African men, women, and children
• American men, women, and children

What is the term for buying goods and supplies at the beginning of spring but not paying for them until after the harvest in the fall?

• savings
• barter
• credit
• debt

Which of the following is NOT true about the economy of the Virginia colony?

• Tobacco was a cash crop sold to England.
• Virginia became a major world producer of naval ships
• Agriculture was the primary source of wealth.
• The colony became dependent on slave labor.

If Mary were going to build a house in Colonial Virginia, her house would most likely be--

• a mansion with tiled floors
• a two-story house with carpeting
• a one-room home with a dirt floor
• a plantation home

Scots-Irish mostly settled in which area of Virginia?

• Shenandoah Valley
• Near the Fall Line
• Great Dismal Swamp
• Eastern Shore

In which areas were Africans and the English primarily settled?

• Blue Ridge Mountain Regions
• Appalachian Plateau and Shenandoah Valley
• Piedmont and Tidewater
• Tidewater and Blue Ridge Mountains

Each of these cities have been the capital of Virginia EXCEPT--

• Charlottesville
• Williamsburg
• Jamestown
• Richmond

Which shows the correct order of the capitals of Virginia? 

• Jamestown, Richmond, Williamsburg
• Williamsburg, Jamestown, Richmond
• Charlottesville, Richmond, Jamestown
• Jamestown, Williamsburg, Richmond

The following are reasons the capital was moved from Jamestown to Williamsburg EXCEPT--

• livestock needed a different type of grass
• unhealthy living conditions caused diseases
• fire destroyed wooded and brick buildings
• the drinking water was contaminated