1607 through the American Revolution
Virginia SOL VS.7
Understand life in the Virginia colony.
What students need to be able to do
- Explain the importance and influence of agriculture.
- Examine how colonial Virginia reflected the culture of Virginia's Indigenous People, European immigrants, and Africans.
- Distinguish between indentured servants and enslaved people, including how European countries traded for, transported, and sold Africans to be enslaved in British North America beginning in the 17th century.
- Describe the laws that established race-based enslavement.
- Explain the reasons for the relocation of Virginia's capital from Jamestown to Williamsburg.
- Describe ways people exchanged goods and services in colonial Virginia.