Colonial Life Part 2 Flashcards
(Capital Change)
- Name the three reasons the capital moved from Jamestown to Williamsburg.
1. drinking water was contaminated by
seepage of salt water
2.unhealthy living conditions caused
diseases
3. fire destroyed wooden and brick
buildings at Jamestown(Capital Change)
- Where did the capital move after Jamestown?
-Williamsburg
(Capital Change)
- Where was the first capital of Virginia?
-Jamestown
(Capital Change)
- How was the drinking water at Jamestown contaminated?
-seepage of salt water
(Capital Change)
- What caused the diseases at Jamestown?
-Unhealthy living conditions
(Capital Change)
- What happened to the buildings at Jamestown?
-fire destroyed them
(Economics)
- What is the term for a medium (way) of exchange? (currency including coins and paper bills)
money
(Economics)
- What is the term for trading or exchanging of goods and services without the use of money?
barter
(Economics)
- What is the term for buying a good or service now and paying for it later?
credit
(Economics)
- What is the term for a good or service owed to someone?
debt
(Economics)
- What is the term for money put away to save or spend at a later time?
savings
(Economics)
- What system was commonly used instead of money because few people had paper money or coins to use to buy goods and services?
Barter
(Economics)
- What was used instead of money to pay for goods and services?
Tobacco
(Economics)
- How many banks did colonial Virginia have?
None
(Economics)
- What is it called if a farmer trades his corn for some flour?
barter
(Economics)
- What is it called if a farmer buys some milk now and pays the owner later when is crops are ready?
credit
(Economics)
- What is it called if a farmer owes some tobacco to another farmer?
debt
(Vocab)
- What is the term for products; things you can touch?
-goods
(Vocab)
- What is the term for things people do for you?
-services
(Vocab)
- What is the term for the style in which a building is built?
-architecture
(Vocab)
- What is the term for things families do from year to year and pass on (traditions)?
-customs
(Vocab)
- What is the term for a group with common characteristics and features (like their behaviors and beliefs)?
-culture
(Vocab)
- What is the term for moving from one place to another?
-migration
(Vocab)
- What is the term for changes you make to “fit in” to an area?
-adapt
(Vocab)
- What is the term for the area (land) around you?
-landscape
(Vocab)
- What is the term for something so dirty you can’t eat or drink it?
-contaminated
(Vocab)
- What is the term for when something leaks?
-seepage
(Life)
- What three types of resources did people living in colonial Virginia depended on to produce the goods and services they needed?
natural, capital, human
(Life)
- Describe the food choices and meals colonial Virginians ate. (two things)
Food choices were limited
Meals were made of local produce and meats
(Life)
- What were most homes like in colonial Virginia? (two things)
They had one room houses with dirt floors
(Life)
- Describe how colonial Virginians got their clothing and what their clothes were made out of.
They made their own clothes
Clothes were made out of cotton, wool, leather
(Life)
- Which group of Virginians owned their own businesses and property, but were denied most rights?
Many of the free African Americans
(Life)
- Which group of Virginians had no rights?
enslaved African Americans
(Life)
- Which group of Virginians worked tobacco, other crops, and livestock?
enslaved African Americans
(Life)
- Describe how white Virginians made their living. (two things)
MOST were small farmers
A FEW owned large farms (plantations)
(Culture)
- Whenever people settle an area, they change the culture and landscape to reflect what three things?
-beliefs, customs, and architecture
(Culture)
- What are three examples of architecture that reflect different cultures?
-barns, homes, places of worship
(Culture)
- What place name reflects the English culture?
-Richmond
(Culture)
- What place name reflects the American Indian culture?
-Roanoke
(Culture)
- Where did the English mainly settle in Virginia?
-in the Coastal Plain and Piedmont regions
(Culture)
- Where did the Germans and Scots-Irish mainly settle in Virginia?
-in the Shenandoah Valley, which is along the migration route
(Culture)
- Where did the African mainly settle in Virginia?
-in the Coastal Plain and Piedmont regions where growing tobacco required a great deal of labor
(Culture)
- Where did the American Indians mainly settle in Virginia? (Tell about before and after the settlers arrived)
- Before the arrival of the settlers, they lived in all areas throughout Virginia.
- After the settlers arrived they were forced to move inland.
(Culture)
- What caused people to adapt old customs to their new environment?
-migration and living in new areas
