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	Colonial Virginia Economic Vocabulary Review Printer friendly format. Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks below. debt   barter   credit   money   saving 1. A plantation owner like George Washington did not always use ____________ to purchase merchandise from English merchants. 2. Colonial Virginians used an economic system of trading called __________ to purchase goods and services. 3. A merchant such as Fielding Lewis would probably allow colonial Fredericksburg shoppers to buy merchandise on ___________, instead of cash. 4. George Washington could pay his ___________ owed to an English merchant with tobacco or other crops from his plantation. 5. Unlike colonial Virginians, today we can buy merchandise using cash and keep our extra money or __________ in a bank. It's the eighteenth century and you are Fielding Lewis, a local Fredericksburg merchant and leader. Mr. Lewis who once owned a store at the corner of Lewis and Caroline Street sold items such as fabric and other household items in his store. It was not uncommon for many people during the colonial period to keep a journal. As Fielding Lewis, write a journal entry about your store's recent business activities. Be sure to use the following vocabulary terms: debt, money, barter and credit. ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ History in Your Own Backyard Lesson Plan: Economic Influences on the Virginia Colony Passages: Tobacco and Slavery in the Virginia Colony Activity: Tobacco and the Virginia Colony Activity: Colonial Virginia Economic System Vocabulary Terms Notes & Primary Source Material: Colonial Virginia Economics Activity: Colonial Virginia Economic Questions Review Activity: Tobacco in Colonial Virginia - Cause & Effect Activity: Colonial Virginia Economic Vocabulary Review Activity: Valuable Tobacco/Valuable Tobacco Questions Activity: Tobacco and Slavery Activity: Slave Labor in the Virginia Colony Activity: The Many Jobs of A Slave Activity: A Fredericksburg Plantation Activity: Plantation Vs. Small Town Primary Source Material: Invoice from Crosbies & Trafford Primary Source Material: Slaves Belonging to the Estate of Fielding Lewis Activity: The Main Idea (Microsoft Word Document) Primary Source Material: Ads from the Virginia Gazette Sources Return to History in Your Own Backyard Index | Primers to the Past
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