Colonial Virginia
The economy of Virginia depended primarily upon _______________.agriculture
1619 – 1620 Many Changes100 women arrive
1st Africans arriveburgesses are
elected
The arrival of women made it possible for the settlers to establish __________.families
This made Jamestown a more ___________ settlement.permanent
The arrival of Africans made it possible to expand the
__________ __________.tobacco
economy
The first Africans were ______________ ________________. Africans that came later were sold as ________.
indenturedservants
slaves
The Virginia Colony became dependent upon ______ labor and this dependence lasted a long time.
slave
elected
council burgessesgovernor
The first _______ legislative body.
By the 1640s, the burgesses became a separate lawmaking group called the _________ of ____________.House Burgesses
•It was the first _________ lawmaking body in America.
•It gave the colonists the opportunity to control their own ______________.
elected
government
The House of Burgesses became known as the _________ __________ of Virginia, which continues to this day.
General Assembly
The capital was moved from __________ to _____________.JamestownWilliamsburg
The capital was moved for several reasons:
contaminated drinking water
diseases
fire destroyed buildings at JamestownWilliamsburg
had a higher __________.elevation
What three different cultures came together in the Virginia Colony?
Native American, African, and
European
People from many different cultures lived in Colonial Virginia:
Tidewater and Piedmont: _______ and ________.
English Africans
Shenandoah Valley: ________ and _____________.
Germans Scotch-Irish
Tidewater, Piedmont, & Appalachian Plateau: _________ _________American Indians
Examples of cultural landscapes include:
barnschurches
houses
Place names also reflected different cultures:
Few people used ______ to buy goods and services.
money
A system of trading for goods and services, called _________, was often used instead of money.
bartering
A farmer could use ________ to pay for goods or services.
tobacco
Farmers could buy goods on ________ and pay their debt when their crops were harvested.
credit
There were no ______ in Colonial Virginia.
banks