Used instead of money in colonial times (the item)
What is tobacco?
100
2 of the 3 things colonial people made their clothing from
What are cotton, wool and leather?
100
Virginia's legislative branch
What is the General Assembly?
100
The three capitals Virginia has had
What are Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Richmond?
200
They settled in the Shenandoah Valley
Who are the Germans and Scots-Irish?
200
The number of banks Virginia had in colonial times
What is zero?
200
White people in colonial Virginia mainly made their living as this
What are small farmers?
200
The three parts of the early General Assembly
What are governor, governor's council and 2 representatives (burgesses) from each division of VA?
200
After Williamsburg, the capital moved here
What is Richmond?
300
The Africans settled in Virginia because of this reason
What is working the English tobacco fields?
300
Buying a good or service now and paying for it later
What is credit?
300
The economy of Virginia depended on ______ as a primary source of wealth, and they specifically made money off of _______.
What are agriculture and tobacco?
300
The representatives split away from the General Assembly to form this
What is House of Burgesses?
300
2 of the three reasons why the capital moved from Jamestown to Williamsburg
What are:
1) Drinking water was contaminated by seepage of salt water
2) Unhealthy living conditions caused disease
3)Fire destroyed wooden and brick buildings at Jamestown
400
People change the culture and landscape of an area to reflect these three things
What are beliefs, customs, and architecture?
400
a medium of exchange
What is money?
400
Definition of a cash crop
What is a crop grown to sell for money rather than for use by the growers?
400
The decade the House of Burgesses formed
What is 1640's?
400
2 of the three reasons why the capital moved from Williamsburg to Richmond?
What are
1) Population was moving westward
2) Richmond was a more central location
3) Moving to Richmond increased the distance from attack by the British
500
The path a group takes to move to another area
What is migration route?
500
The group who typically bought goods and services on credit.
Who are farmers?
500
Where the initial African slaves came from
What is present-day Angola?
500
Why the House of Burgesses is important
What is it was the first elected legislative body in America and allowed settlers to control their own government?