colonial virginia created by jori cox, modification to some fonts by l. blodgett

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