English Colonization

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English Colonization

• SOL VS.4a

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SOL VS.4a

• The student will demonstrate knowledge of life in
  the Virginia colony by explaining the importance
  of agriculture and its influence on the
  institution of slavery.

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Essential Questions

• What effect did agriculture have on the Virginia
  colony?
• How did agriculture in the Virginia colony
  influence the institution of slavery?

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Sample Strategies

• Pathway video, Episode 2, "Making the Move",
  segment 2,"Migration, Study Guide pages 7-25
• Read Virginia text pages (referenced below in
  resource section) and create a class Venn diagram
  about
• The contributions of American Indians, the
  English, the German, Scots, Irish, and African
  slaves.
• Divide the class into groups to research the
  accomplishments of each of the social groups who
  helped to develop the Virginia Colony.
• Write a letter home as an indentured servant,
  woman, or plantation owner living in the Virginia
  Colony.
• Describe your life in the New World.
• Research and map the route of tobacco trade and
  slave trade on a world map.

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Cash Crop

• A crop that is grown to sell for money rather
  than for use by the growers

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Virginia Agriculture

• The economy of the Virginia colony depended on
  agriculture as a primary source of wealth.

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Tobacco

• Tobacco became the most profitable agricultural
  product.

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Tobacco
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Selling Tobacco

• Tobacco was sold in England as a cash crop.

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Cheap Labor

• The successful planting of tobacco depended on a
  reliable and inexpensive source of labor.

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African Slaves

• Large numbers of Africans were brought to the
  colony against their will to work as slaves on
  the plantations.

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Slave Labor

• The Virginia colony became dependent on slave
  labor, and the dependence lasted a long time.

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Technology Connections

• http//www.dailypress.com/solutions Daily Press
  newspaper SOL related cartoons
• http//www.school.discovery.com/lessonplans/ushis.
  html Discovery Channel lesson plans
• http//www.historychannel.com/home/index.html
  History Channel main site
• http//www.vastudies.org/ Virginia Pathway Videos
  site
• http//geog.gmu.edu/classes/geog380/setterwest.htm
  l (Scotch-Irish)
• http//www.germanheritage.com/Puplications/Jamesto
  wnindex (Germans

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Tobacco and Slavery Quizzes

• http//www.quia.com/rr/36533.html
• http//www.quia.com/rr/104604.html

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Ready Resources

• http//vastudies.pwnet.org/vs4/vs4_a.htm
• http//historypoint.org/education/teaching/history
  _backyard/economic_influences.asp
• http//www.kqps.net/cdesign/K-720Curriculum20Web
  20Files/CP45791.HTM

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Good Lesson Plan

• http//support.tcc.edu/history/details.asp?SOL_ID
  10

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Terms to Know

• http//www.campbell.k12.va.us/CES/Fourth20Grade/v
  s_4a.htm
• http//www.campbell.k12.va.us/CES/Fourth20Grade/f
  ourth20grade.htm