Colonial Virginia Study Guide
Questions:
1. What is a cash crop?
2. What did Virginia depend on for it's primary source of wealth
3. Names of places often reflect who lived there. Who named Richmond? Who named Roanoke?
4. The successful planting of tobacco depended on what?
5. Some examples of cultural landscapes are?
6. Where did the English Settle? Why?
7. Who was tobacco sold to?
8. Where did the Germans and Scotch-Irish settle?
9. What was the Virginia colony dependent on?
10.What was Virginia's most profitable agricultural product?
11.Where did Africans settle? Why?
12. Where did the Native Americans settle? Why?
13. Virginia's culture reflects which three origins?
14. What were three things that made colonists want to move the capital from Jamestown to Williamsburg?
15. Why was the capital moved from Williamsburg to Richmond?
16. What is money?
17. What does it mean to barter?
18. What is credit?
19. What did people in Colonial Virginia use as money?
Answers:
1. Crop that is grown to sell for money rather than for use by the growers.
2. Agriculture
3. Richmond = English Roanoke = Native Americans
4. A reliable and inexpensive source of labor (slaves)
5. Barns, homes, places of worship (churches)
6. Tidewater and Piedmont regions because there was a lot of fertile land to plant tobacco
7. England
8. In the Shenandoah Valley, which was along a migration route
9. Slave labor
10. Tobacco
11. Mostly in the Tidewater and Piedmont because their labor was needed on the plantations.
12. Mostly in the Tidewater, Piedmont, and Appalachian Plateau where their traditional homelands were located.
13. Native American Indian, European, African
14. ~Fire destroyed Jamestown
~Williamsburg was at a higher elevation
~Mosquitoes caused disease in Jamestown
15. ~Population was moving westward
~Richmond was a more central location
~Moving to Richmond increased the distance
from attack from the English
16.A medium of exchange (including coins & bills)
17. Trading/exchanging good and services without money.
18. Buying a good or service now and paying for it later.
19. Tobacco