A Day in the Life of a Colonist
While several owned their own businesses and property, they were denied most other rights.
Who are free African Americans?
When you buy a good or service now and pay for it later.
What is credit?
This was contaminated with salt in Jamestown, making unhealthy living conditions.
What is water?
These settlers lived primarily in the Coastal Plain/Tidewater and Piedmont Regions.
Who are the English?
This crop is sold for money rather than use by the growers.
What is a cash crop?
People living in colonial Virginia depended on natural, human and ________ resources to produce the goods and services they needed.
What are capital resources?
Putting money away to keep or spend at a later time.
What is saving?
These materials used to build the capital building in Jamestown and were later destroyed by fire?
What are wood and brick?
The migration route the Germans and Scots traveled through the Shenandoah Valley was called?
What is Wilderness Road or the Great Wagon Road?
African American men, women and children were brought to colonial Virginia and forced to work on plantations. Virginia soon became dependent on this type of labor.
What is slave labor?
Enslaved African Americans worked tobacco, crops and livestock and had none of these.
What are rights?
Few people had paper money and coins to use to buy services and goods. Some farmers used this to pay for items.
What is tobacco?
The direction the population was moving in when the capital was moved from Williamsburg to Richmond.
What is westward?
This caused people to adapt old customs to their new environment.
What is migration?
The most profitable crop grown in Virginia that was sold to England as a cash crop.
What is tobacco?
Colonial Virginians made their own clothes using cotton, wool and this.
What is leather?
Many people would do this, which is trading or exchanging goods and services without the use of money.
What is bartering?
The Cumberland Gap the settlers crossed to get to the west was in which mountains?
What is Appalachian?
Examples of this, such as barns, homes and places of worship, reflected the different cultures represented in colonial Virginia.
What is architecture?
The primary source of wealth for the Virginia Colony.
What is agriculture?
Most white Virginians made their living this way.
What is farming?
When you owe someone a good or service.
What is a debt?
The capital was moved further inland to Richmond to increase the distance from and limit attacks from these people.
Who are the British?
Africans settled in this region because of the high demand for labor in the tobacco fields.
What are the Coastal Plains and Piedmont regions?