Plantation Vs. Small Town

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Plantation Vs. Small Town

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Brainstorm the similarities and differences between a plantation and a small town. How are they alike? How are they different? Write your ideas below.

Plantation ______________________ ______________________ ______________________		Small Town ______________________ ______________________ ______________________
	Alike ______________________ ______________________ ______________________

Questions:

1. Why were plantations considered to be self-sufficient?

2. Explain how a plantation might resemble a small town.

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

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