English and other Europeans settled primarily first in this region.
What is Coastal Plain/Tidewater?
100
This was contaminated by seepage of salt water.
What is drinking water?
100
The population was moving in this direction which became a reason to move the capital from Williamsburg.
What is west(westward)?
100
There were no banks in colonial Virginia. Most people did not have currency (paper money/coins. Many farmers used this as money.
What is tobacco?
200
This is a crop grown to sell for money rather than for use by the grower.
What is a cash crop?
200
These two groups moved to the Piedmont Region as more land was needing for tobacco.
What are English and Africans?
200
Unhealthy living conditions caused this at Jamestown.
What is disease?
200
Richmond was chosen because of its location. Richmond was in this part of Virginia.
What is the central part of Virginia?
200
Trading or exchanging goods and services without the use of money was called this. A farmer may have needed a milk cow but no money to pay for it. He may offer to build fences in return for the cow.
What is bartering?
300
Virginia depended on this type of economy as the primary source of wealth.
What is agriculture?
300
These two groups settled in the Shenandoah from Pennsylvania.
What are Germans and Scots-Irish?
300
Many wooden and brick buildings were destroyed by this at Jamestown.
What is fire?
300
Richmond became a center of this for Virginia. This was another reason for moving the capital.
What is trade?
300
Jacob went to the store to buy grain to plant this spring to harvest in the fall in hopes of making money. He did not have money so he bought the grain and promised to bring pay for it later after his harvest in the fall.
What is credit?
400
The Virginia became dependent upon this as a source of inexpensive form of labor. This lasted for a long time.
What is slavery or slave labor?
400
Roanoke reflects this culture.
What is American Indian (Native Americans)?
400
The second location for Virginia's capital was here.
What is Williamsburg?
400
Richmond became a hub for the state because these came in and out of the city.
What are railroads?
400
This money set aside to use at a later time.
What is savings?
500
This was sold to England as a cash crop in Virginia.
What is tobacco?
500
Barns, places of worship, and homes are examples of this.
What is architecture?
500
Diseases were carried by this insect.
What is mosquito?
500
Moving to Richmond increased the distance from the sea and possible attack by these people.