WorksheetsVS 4 A Growing Virginia
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 14mins
A good or service owed to someone.
money
barter
debt
credit
A crop grown to sell for money is called a ...
money crop
corn crop
cash crop
fortune crop
The economy of Virginia depended on _______________ as its primary source of wealth.
agriculture (farming)
gold and silver
blacksmiths
boat making
Growing an abundance of tobacco depended on a steady and inexpensive source of labor. Who provided this labor?
women
children
enslaved Africans
poor whites
Examples of architecture that reflect different cultures include.
bridges, roads
homes, churches
shoes, coats
wagons, horses
5. A place name that reflects English culture is...
Roanoke
Richmond
Pocahontas
Harrisonburg
A place name that reflects Native American culture is...
Richmond
Jamestown
Harrisonburg
Roanoke
The Germans and Scots-Irish settled in the...
Coastal Plain
Piedmont
Shenandoah Valley
Appalachian Plateau
The English and Africans settled in the ...
Coastal Plain and Piedmont
Piedmont and Valley and Ridge
Blue Ridge Mountains
Dismal Swamp and Eastern Shore
Which answer is NOT a reason why the capital got moved from Jamestown to Williamsburg?
Fire destroyed wooden and brick buildings
Williamsburg was an established location
Drinking water was contaminated at Jamestown
A hurricane destroyed Jamestown
Buy now-Pay later is...
credit
barter
debt
savings
People in colonial Virginia had a lot of food choices.
true
false
An example of agriculture is__________.
A person farming
A person eating
A person writing on the board
A person riding on a ship
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
In colonial Virginia, what did many farmers use as money to pay for goods and services?
Paper money
Loans from banks
Tobacco
Enslaved Africans
Which of the following is a true statement?
Farmers could not use crops to pay off their debts.
Colonial Virginia did not have banks.
Credit was not used in colonial Virginia.
Most people in colonial Virginia did not have paper money.
Trading beads for fur is an example of ___________.
credit
barter
debt
saving
If Robert's friend lends him $40 to buy a horse, Robert now owes his friend money. The money Robert owes is_______.
barter
savings
credit
debt
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
Thomas was a farmer in Virginia, and he needed to buy a horse. What are the 2 different ways he could purchase a horse?
Trade Americans Indian plantation workers for a horse.
Use his tobacco crop as money to purchase a horse
Get a loan from the bank.
Purchase a horse on credit and pay for it when his crops come in.
The act of trading or exchanging of goods and services without the use of money is____________.
credit
barter
debt
money
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.
How did the drinking water become contaminated in the Jamestown Settlement?
Wildlife drinking from the same water supply used by the settlers.
Salt water from the Atlantic Ocean seeped in.
Floods from heavy rains made the water muddy and unsafe.
Settlers kept pouring salt into the fresh water supply.
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
