Table of Contents:
A list of each activity and suggested uses are outlined with the correlating SOL.
This passage outlines the history of tobacco and slavery in the Virginia colony with specific references to local history.
This activity requires students to complete an outline using notes from Tobacco and Slavery in the Virginia Colony to demonstrate understanding of material read.
In this activity, students will define colonial Virginia economic terms using context clues from Tobacco and Slavery in the Virginia Colony.
This activity reinforces student knowledge of colonial Virginia economic terms, using primary source documents highlighting George Washington's business transactions with an English merchant.
In this activity, students will respond to questions using Colonial Virginia Economics.
This activity requires students to identify the cause and effect relationship between tobacco, slavery and the Virginia colony.
This activity provides a review of colonial Virginia economic vocabulary terms by writing from the perspective of an eighteenth century merchant.
In this activity, student knowledge of tobacco is enhanced by reading an actual invoice requesting goods for George Washington from an English merchant. Follow-up questions are provided.
This activity allows students to role play picking tobacco and packing hogsheads for sale in England.
This activity provides students with knowledge of the importance of the different kinds of jobs performed by a slave.
Students will compare and contrast jobs performed by slaves with jobs of today, while continuing to enhance their understanding of the influence of slavery in the colonia era.
In this activity, students learn about a local plantation and its owners, Fielding Lewis and Betty Washington, as they discover the characteristics of a plantation.
This activity provides a follow-up to A Fredericksburg Plantation, by having sudents compare the similarities between a plantaion and a small town.
This primary source document is a copy of an original invoice of goods shipped to George Washington by an English merchant, providing and example of how colonial Virginians used tobacco to purchase goods.
This primary source document, lists actual names and jobs of slaves belonging to notable Fredericksburg merchant and leader, Fielding Lewis.
This graphic organizer was designed for use with the passage, Tobacco and Slavery in the Virginia Colony. Students will use key words from the passage to highlight essential details for each paragraph.
Several copies of original ads taken from the Virginia Gazette, listing the sale of slaves in Fredericksburg.