Colonial Virginia Review

What would most people in the Virginia colony live in?

• A plantation (where they grew tobacco)

• In large houses

• In houses with one room

• in fancy mansions

Answer explanation

Only a few people living in Virginia were rich enough to have plantations and a lot of land.

How did the Virginia company earn most of its wealth?

• shipbuilding

• agriculture (farming)

• masonry

• industry

When you grow a crop to sell it for money instead of to use it yourself, what is that called?

• cash crop

• dollar crop

• seasonal crop

• King's crop

Answer explanation

Virginia's biggest cash crop was tobacco!

How did most white Virginians make their living?

• Learning a special trade.

• Importing African slaves

• Farming on small farms

• Serving as soldiers for the British Army

Use the word money, credit, or savings to fill in the blank.

If you buy a good or service now, but pay for it later, you are using _______.

Use the word money, credit, or savings to fill in the blank.

_______ is when you put money away to use later.

Use the word money, credit, or savings to fill in the blank.

_______ is a medium of exchange.

Which one of these words is a synonym of trade?

• currency

• barter

• money

• debt

What group of people were brought to the Virginia colony against their will?

• African men, women, and children

• Scots-Irish men

• American Indian children

• German men, woman, and children

What cash crop made the most money for Virginia?

• corn

• cotton

• tobacco

• potatoes