Economics
The trading or exchanging of goods and services without the use of money.
What is barter?
A crop that is grown to sell for money rather than for use by the growers.
What is a cash crop?
What is the Coastal Plain (Tidewater) and Piedmont regions?
______________ made clothes for family members in their households.
What are women?
__________ was Virginia's first capital.
What is Jamestown?
A good or service owed to someone.
What is debt?
_____________________ became the most profitable agricultural product because it was sold in England as a cash crop.
What is tobacco?
The Germans and Scots-Irish settled in the ____________________ Valley.
Some people in Colonial Virginia had large farms.
What is a planation?
____________ was Virginia's second capital.
What is Williamsburg?
_______________ was used as money. Farmers used this crop to pay for goods and services.
What is tobacco?
Name a synonym for agriculture.
What is farming?
Prior to the arrival of the settlers, American Indians lived throughout Virginia. After the settlers arrived, most were forced ______________.
What is inland or west?
Food choices were ____________ in Colonial Virginia.
What is limited?
True or False: Williamsburg was an already established town in 1699.
What is true?
Buying a good or service now and paying for it later.
What is credit?
The economy of the Virginia colony depended on _______________ as the primary source of wealth.
What is agriculture?
The movement of people or animals from one place to another.
What is migration?
Name the three resources that people in Colonial Virginia depended on to produce their goods and services.
What are Natural, human, and capital resources?
A fire destroyed wooden and brick building at ____________________.
What is Jamestown?
- There was very little paper money or coins in the early Virginia colony. So, storekeepers during this time mainly received payment by----
a. offering to share goods with the settlers
b. accepting checks from English banks
c. offering credit to the settlers for goods
d. accepting gold from English ships
What is c?
The Virginia colony turned to ______________ labor to make money and expand their resources.
What is enslaved?
Name the three types architecture that reflects the different cultures in colonial Virginia.
What are barns, homes, and churches (places of worship)?
In Colonial Virginia, this group of people could purchase land but were still denied basic rights.
What is free African Americans?
Which is NOT a reason the capital moved from Jamestown to Williamsburg.
A. Williamsburg was a more central location.
B. Drinking water in Jamestown was contaminated by seepage of saltwater.
C. Unhealthy living conditions in Jamestown caused diseases.
What is A?