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Colonial Virginia - J.W. Alvey
Colonial Virgnia - J.W. Alvey
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4th Grade
12/04/2007

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1. What is a cash crop?
Definition
A crop that is grown to sell for money rather than for use by the growers.
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2. What did the Virginia colony depend on for wealth
Definition
Agriculture
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3. What is agriculture
Definition
The growing of crops and livestock
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4. What was the most profitable agricultural product of Colonial Virginia?
Definition
Tobacco
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5. Where was the tobacco sold?
Definition
England
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6. What was Virginia's cash crop
Definition
Tobacco
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7. What was necessary for the successful planting of tobacco?
Definition
A reliable and inexpensive source of labor.
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8. How did the colony provide all the labor that was needed to grow tobacco?
Definition
Large numbers of Africans were brought to the colony against their will to work as slaves on the plantations.
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9. What did the Virginia colony's economy depend upon for a long time?
Definition
Slave labor
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10. What is a landscape?
Definition
The countryside
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11. What is a cultural landscape?
Definition
"Whenever people settle an area, they change the landscape to reflect their beliefs, customs, and architecture of their native culture."
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12. What are three examples of a cultural landscape?
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"Barnes, homes and churches"
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13. What culture does the name of the city of Richmond reflect?
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English
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14. What culture does the name of the city of Roanoke reflect.
Definition
Native American
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15. Where did the English primarily settle
Definition
The Tidewater and Piedmont areas of Virginia
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16. Where did the Germans and the Scotch-Irish mainly settle.
Definition
The Shenandoah Valley
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17. The Shenandoah Valley is a part of what route?
Definition
Migration route
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18. Where did the Africans mainly settle?
Definition
The Tidewater and Piedmont areas of Virginia
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19. Why did the Africans mainly settle in the Tidewater and Piedmont regions of Virginia
Definition
Because the agriculture there required a great deal of labor
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20. Where were the American Indians (Native Americans) mainly located?
Definition
The Tidewater and Piedmont and Appalachian Plateau areas of Virginia
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21. What is migration?
Definition
The moving from one country or region to another
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22. What did people have to do when they migrated to a new area?
Definition
"They had to adapt their old customs to their new environment,"
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23. What cultures did the colony of Virginia reflect?
Definition
"American Indian (Native American), European, and African"
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24. Why did they move Virginia's capital from Jamestown to Williamsburg?
Definition
"Because in Jamestown the drinking water was contaminated, the dirty living conditions were causing disease and the wooded building burned and Williamsburg is at a higher elevation."
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25. Why did they move Virginia's capital from Williamsburg to Richmond?
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The population was moving westward - Richmond was a more central locations - It was a better location for trade - It increased the distance from attack by the English
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26. What is money?
Definition
A medium of exchange (currency which includes coins and paper bills)
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27. What is barter
Definition
Trading or exchanging of goods and services without the use of money
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28. What is credit?
Definition
Buying a good or service now and paying for it later.
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29. What is debt?
Definition
A good or service owed to another?
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30. What is saving?
Definition
Money or something put away to save or to spend at a later time.
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31. What was used instead of money in colonial Virginia to purchase goods and services?
Definition
Barter
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32. Did people have much currency or coins?
Definition
No
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33. What was commonly used to barter?
Definition
Tobacco
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34. What did farmers use to purchase goods and services?
Definition
Credit
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35. What did the farmers pay off their credit debt with?
Definition
Their crops
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36. Did colonial Virginia have banks?
Definition
No
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