Unit 4

Question 0

Where did colonial Virginians get their clothes?

Answer 0

They were made at home….”homemade”

Question 1

Where did most Virginians live?

Answer 1

On small farms

Question 2

What did colonial Virginians eat?

Answer 2

They ate meat they hunted and killed. They also grew vegetables and fruits (produce).

Question 3

True or False: African men and women had many rights.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

True or False: Money in Virginia was tobacco.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Did colonial Virginia have banks?

Answer 5

No

Question 6

Who settled in the Shenandoah Valley?
A. Germans and Scots-Irish
B. English and Africans

Answer 6

A. Germans and Scots-Irish

Question 7

Who settled in the Tidewater and Piedmont regions?
A. Germans and Scots-Irish
B. English and African

Answer 7

B. English and Africans

Question 8

True or False: Native Americans got moved off their native lands.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

List the three capital cities of Virginia from first to last.

Answer 9

1. Jamestown
2. Williamsburg
3. Richmond

Question 10

This crop is grown to be sold for money and not for personal use. 
A. Bananas
B. Cash crop
C. Gardens
D. Coconuts

Answer 10

B. Cash crop

Question 11

An economy is based on this. It is used for buying and selling. 
A. Silver
B. Good will
C. Credit
D. Money

Answer 11

D. Money

Question 12

What is another word for trading or exchanging goods or services without using money?
(Hint: begins with “b”)

Answer 12

Bartering

Question 13

True or false: Everybody had paper money and coins in colonial Virginia days to go to the store and buy what they needed.

Answer 13

False

Question 14

T/F. Virginia colonies depended on agriculture (farming) as the main (primary) source of wealth.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

Farmer Brown needed some coffee and flour from the general store but he didn’t have any money. How would he pay for the coffee and flour?

Answer 15

He would put it on CREDIT and pay off that DEBT when his crops were harvested and sold.

Question 16

Tobacco was a huge cash crop for Virginia back in colonial days and even now. In colonial days, where did the workers come from who helped farm the tobacco on the big plantations?

Answer 16

People were brought from Africa to be slaves and work very hard their entire lives on farms.

Question 17

T/F. The Great Wagon Road was a migration route from Maryland and Pennsylvania down through the Shanandoah Valley. It brought many Germans and Scots-Irish to this area seeking religious freedom.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

T/F. In 1716, Governor Andrew Spotswood led the first expedition to cross the Blue Ridge Mountains into the Shenandoah Valley. His men called themselves “Knights of the Golden Horseshoe”.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

What are the 3 basic needs we all need to survive?

Answer 19

1. Food
2. Clothing
3. Housing

Question 20

Colonial Virginians made their clothes out of what?
A. Wool
B. Cotton
C. Leather
D. All of the above

Answer 20

D. All of the above

Question 21

When people settled into a new area like colonial Virginia, did they develop new types of buildings and new customs or did they reflect (look like) the landscape of their home country?

Answer 21

The beliefs, customs and buildings looked like the ones from the areas they came from.

Question 22

Pick the names that came from English names. 
A. Richmond
B. Williamsburg
C. Rappahannock
D. Fredericksburg

Answer 22

Richmond
Williamsburg
Fredericksburg

Question 23

Pick the names that cames from Native American names. 
A. Roanoke
B. Rappahannock
C. Chesapeake 
D. Richmond

Answer 23

Roanoke
Rappahannock
Chesapeake