Colonial VirginiaCreated by Jori Cox, modification to some fonts by L. Blodgett

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