New Nation
In 1863, 50 western counties that opposed slavery broke away from Virginia to form this new state.
What is West Virginia?
During the period of reconstruction, hundreds of thousands of freed ____________ needed housing, education, clothing, food, and jobs.
Who are African Americans?
Maggie Walker was a businesswoman and civil rights leader in Richmond. She was also the first African American woman to found and lead a _____ in the U.S.
What is bank?
During this movement, African Americans demanded equal treatment and the recognition of their rights as American citizens, rights which had been taken away after Reconstruction, including:
What was the Civil Rights Movement?
“We the People of the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect union…” is part of the preamble in this important document.
What is the United States Constitution?
This was the capital of the Confederacy.
What is Richmond?
These were state and local laws that enforced segregation and discrimination against African Americans and Indigenous People.
What were Jim Crow laws?
A. Linwood Holton, Jr. and L. Douglas Wilder both served in this government role in Virginia.
What is governer?
These were both global wars that involved many countries, and they had a big impact on Virginia and the entire United States. The first occurred from 1914–1918 and the second occurred from 1939–1945.
What are World War I and World War II?
Nat Turner was an enslaved man living in Southampton County, Virginia. In 1831, Turner led a _______ against slavery.
What is rebellion?
There were different economies in the north and south. In the ______, much of the economy was based on farming and plantations.
What is the south?
This was a system with unfair practices that locked people into poverty. Freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner by promising to pay the owner with a share of the crops.
What is sharecropping?
Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. was a famous ______ player from Richmond and a strong advocate for civil rights.
What is tennis?
The Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision by the U.S. Supreme Court declared that “separate but ____” schools were unconstitutional.
What is equal?
Who is James Madison?
One cause of the Civil War was the election of this man in 1860 because Southern states feared he would end slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The 14th Amendment (1868) said that anyone born in the U.S. was a _____________ and had equal protection under the law.
What is citizen?
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and unfair laws were used to keep Black citizens from doing this.
What is voting?
He wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights, a document that said all people have natural rights like life and liberty.
George Mason
This is the term for someone who wanted to end slavery.
What is abolitionist?
The ___________ ____________ was established to provide food, medical care, and education to freed African Americans after the Civil War.
What is Freedman's Bureau?
Refused to give up her bus seat in 1944, a decade before Rosa Parks. Her case helped end segregation on interstate buses.
Who is Irene Morgan?
What was Massive Resistance?