Virginia's Presidents
Which President lived at Mount Vernon and was commander in Chief of the Continental Army
George Washington
Which President wrote the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
What was the period of time called after the Civil War when the US was rebuilding
Reconstruction
What court case made segregation legal and reinforced the Jim Crow laws?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What is one of the top industries in Virginia today?
Livestok
Computer technology
ship building
agriculture
Which President was James Madison (number)
4th
What documents did Thomas Jefferson write?
Declaration of Independence and Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
What was the tax called that prevented some people (African Americans, Poor Whites, and Indians) from voting? It was a fee they had to pay.
Poll Tax
What major transportation system was key to the expansion of businesses and agriculture and industry after the Civil War?
Railroads
Buying, selling, shipping, and creating goods within Virginia and the other United States is called
Domestic
Who had the shortest presidency?
William Henry Harrison
Which President became President because his predecessor died
John Tyler
Why was Virginia's economy in ruins after the civil war?
Rail roads, bridges and plantations were destroyed and the money was no good
What was the name of the agency that helped poor whites southerners and newly freed Africans after the civil war?
Freedmans Bureau
Buying, selling, shipping, and creating goods to and with other countries is called
International
Which President was Rough and Ready -- he had a military career before becoming President.
Zachary Taylor
Who was President during WWI?
Woodrow Wilson
A person who rents farm land and pays the landowner with a share of the crop is called a
sharecropper
What period of time were Africans allowed to have power in Virginia's government?
During Reconstruction
Trees, water, soil are what type of resources?
Natural
Fill in the missing Presidents on the List
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
Zachary Taylor
Woodrow Wilson
Who created the League of Nations and won the Nobel Peace Prize?
Woodrow Wilson
Treating people unfairly and different is
discrimination
Separating people and creating separate facilities is called
Segregation
something man-made such as a tool or machine that helps us work better is what kind of resource?
Capital