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31 Cards in this Set
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What is a cash crop grown for?
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A cash crop is sold for money.
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What is an example of a cash crop?
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Tobacco
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What was needed to plant Virginia's cash crops?
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Slave labor
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What was the most profitable agricultural crop?
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tobacco
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Why did Virginians decided to move their Capital to Williamburg?
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Disease, bad water, and swamps.
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Large numbers of what were brought to the colony against their will as slaves on plantations?
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Africans
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Virginians developed a unique___________
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culture
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What did the colonists that came to Virginia change to survive in their new land?
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The way they worshiped, crops they farmed,and buildings they built.
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What culture is the word Richmond taken from?
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English
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What culture are the words Nottoway River taken from?
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Native American
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What culture is the word Roanoke taken from?
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Native American
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Money could not be stored in ___________
in colonial Virginia. |
banks
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What material did the Virginia Colony export to England?
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lumber
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Why did Africans settled primarily in the Tidewater and Piedmont regions?
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This is where labor was needed.
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Why did English settled primarily in the Tidewater and Piedmont regions?
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This is where they began to explore the new land.
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Why did the American Indians settle primarily in the Tidewater, the Piedmont and the Appalachian Regions?
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This was near their traditional homelands.
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Where did the Scotch, Irish, and Germans settle?
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Shenandoah Valley
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What could Farmers in Colonial Virginia do to buy goods and services before their crops where harvested?
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Credit
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What is the main reason there were more African American slaves in eastern Virginia than in western Virginia?
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The Tidewater and Piedmont Regions were better for plantation farming.
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Goods and services could be paid with what?
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Pounds of Tobacco
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What was Slave labor needed for?
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Harvest the large plantations of Tobacco
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Money put away to be spent at a later time is called?
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savings
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Where did the Scotch-Irish and German pioneers settle?
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the Shenandoah Valley
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In 1698, why did Virginians decide to move their capital to Richmond?
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Move the capital to the center of the state. It was a better location for trade. Population was moving west. Farther from attack from English.
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What does money include?
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currency, coins, or paper bills.
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How did colonists buy goods and services in colonial Virginia?
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They bartered
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When did the first African American arrive in Virginia?
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1619
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William Byrd was a Virginia gentleman who lived from 1674 to 1744 and owned a vast plantation on the James River. What do you think he was most likely to have grown there?
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tobacco
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As a wealthy planter, you could be certain that William Bryd could what?
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vote in the election for members of the House of Burgesses.
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Even though the colonist were from England, they had to live differently in Virginia because
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The land and climate was much different in Virginia.
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How did the Virginia colony make money?
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Agriculture (farming)
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