WorksheetsGr. 4 Virginia Studies - ECONOMY
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 14mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What important event happened in 1619 at the Jamestown colony?
a)
Jamestown was established
b)
Women were brought over to make a permanent colony
c)
Africans were brought over for slave labor
d)
Scots-Irish began their migration
2.
Seafood and peanuts are featured products from which Virginia region?
a)
Coastal Plain (Tidewater) Region
b)
Appalachian Plateau Region
c)
Piedmont Region
d)
v
3.
To meet the massive demand for slaves, where did the Europeans look for slaves?
a)
Europe
b)
Africa
c)
Asia
d)
Spain
4.
What is the most profitable cash crop the Virginia Colony sold to England?
a)
corn
b)
tobacco
c)
cotton
d)
potatoes
5.
____________________: trading or exchanging of goods and services without the use of money.
a)
Barter
b)
Debt
c)
Credit
d)
Savings
6.
What is a good or service owed to another?
a)
credit
b)
debt
c)
cash crop
d)
barter
7.
What is it called when someone buys a good or service now and pays for it later
a)
credit
b)
cash crop
c)
debt
d)
barter
8.
What is a crop that is grown to sell for money rather than for use by the growers?
a)
credit
b)
debt
c)
barter
d)
cash crop
9.
Colonial Virginia did not have banks, and paper and coin money was rare. What did many colonists use as money?
a)
beads
b)
tobacco
c)
fur
d)
corn
10.
Which group of people provided the primary source of labor in Virginia's tobacco fields?
a)
American Indians
b)
African Slaves
c)
Scots-Irish
d)
Burgesses
11.
What was the primary industry / economic activity in colonial Virginia?
a)
Gold mining
b)
Agriculture
c)
Archaeology
d)
Information Technology
12.
Where did most people get their clothes in colonial Virginia?
a)
Bought them at the store
b)
Made their own
c)
From England
d)
The Indians
13.
This culture group settled primarily in the Coastal Plain (Tidewater) and Piedmont regions, where tobacco agriculture required a great deal of labor.
a)
Germans
b)
American Indians
c)
Scots-Irish
d)
Africans
14.
Why did Africans primarily settle in these two shaded regions?
a)
They had the opportunity to own their own land in these locations
b)
The farms there depended on inexpensive labor
c)
It was along the migration route
d)
The location was good for growing crops
15.
Shipbuilding, tourism, and military bases are industries of which region?
a)
Coastal Plain
b)
Piedmont
c)
Valley and Ridge
d)
Appalachian Plateau
16.
Which are the main products of the Piedmont region?
a)
poultry and beef
b)
coal and apples
c)
fish and peanuts
d)
tobacco and computers (IT)
17.
Which is an example of a human resource?
a)
A worker
b)
Tobacco
c)
A horse
d)
A barrel
18.
People living in colonial Virginia depended on natural, human, and capital ________ to produce the goods and services they needed.
a)
products
b)
money
c)
resources
d)
bartering
19.
Food choices in Colonial America were ________________.
a)
limited
b)
scarce
c)
plentiful
d)
varied
20.
What natural resources did the colonists use to make clothing?
a)
bark, cornhusks, tobacco leaves
b)
cotton, wool, leather
c)
silk, buffalo hide, papyrus
d)
seal skin, seaweed, feathers
21.
-apples
-poultry
-beef
-dairy
are products of which region?
-poultry
-beef
-dairy
are products of which region?
a)
Appalachian Plateau
b)
Valley and Ridge
c)
Piedmont
d)
Coastal Plain
22.
During the Civil War, the economy in the southern part if the United States was agricultural and relied on ______.
a)
slave labor
b)
factories
c)
water power
23.
During the Civil War, the economy in the northern part of the United States was ________ and depended on manufacturing.
a)
agricultural
b)
industrialized
c)
architectural
d)
trading
24.
After the Civil War, which industry led to economic growth in southwestern Virginia?
a)
Tobacco
b)
Agricultural
c)
Tourism
d)
Mining
25.
What was discovered in Tazwell County which spurred post-war growth?
a)
Tobacco
b)
Coal
c)
Slaves
d)
Oil
26.
What key transportation development spurred economic growth during reconstruction?
a)
Interstate Highways
b)
Railroads
c)
Airplanes
d)
Bicycles
27.
Which agriculture product resumed its place as a cash crop in post-war Virginia?
a)
Cotton
b)
Apples
c)
Tobacco
d)
Soybeans
28.
What is the system by which poor white farmers and freed African Americans farmed the land and paid more than half their crops for rent?
a)
Jim Crow laws
b)
war
c)
sharecropping
d)
Freedman's Bureau
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