STANDARD VS.4a The student will demonstrate knowledge of life in the Virginia colony by a) explaining the importance of agriculture and its influence on the institution of slavery. Essential Questions Essential Knowledge Terms to know What effect did agriculture have on the cash crop: A crop that is grown to sell for Virginia colony? money rather than for use by the growers The economy of the Virginia colony depended on agriculture as the primary source of wealth. Tobacco became the most profitable How did agriculture in the Virginia agricultural product. colony influence the institution of Tobacco was sold in England as a cash slavery? crop. The successful cultivation of tobacco depended on a steady and inexpensive source of labor. African men, women, and children were brought to the Virginia colony and enslaved to work on the plantations. The Virginia colony became dependent on slave labor, and this dependence lasted a long time.
STANDARD VS.4a The student will demonstrate knowledge of life in the Virginia colony by a) explaining the importance of agriculture and its influence on the institution of slavery. Essential Questions Essential Knowledge What effect did agriculture have on the Virginia colony? How did agriculture in the Virginia colony influence the institution of slavery? Terms to know cash crop: A crop that is grown to sell for money rather than for use by the growers The economy of the Virginia colony depended on agriculture as the primary source of wealth. Tobacco became the most profitable agricultural product. Tobacco was sold in England as a cash crop. The successful cultivation of tobacco depended on a steady and inexpensive source of labor. African men, women, and children were brought to the Virginia colony and enslaved to work on the plantations. The Virginia colony became dependent on slave labor, and this dependence lasted a long time.
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