Agriculture & Slavery

Question 1

31. What job did the Virginia colony depended on as its primary (main) source of wealth (money)?

Answer 1

-agriculture

Question 2

32. What became the most profitable agricultural product? (made the most money)

Answer 2

-TOBACCO!

Question 3

33. Where was tobacco sold as a cash crop?

Answer 3

-England

Question 4

34. Who was brought to the Virginia colony against their will to work as slaves on plantations?

Answer 4

-African men, women, and children

Question 5

35. What did the Virginia colony become dependent on for a long time?

Answer 5

-slave labor

Question 6

36. Why did the Virginia colony rely on slave labor for the successful planting of tobacco?

Answer 6

• it was a steady and inexpensive source of labor (workers).