Vocabulary
The separation of races.
What is segregation?
US president during World War 1. He created the League of Nations.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
The attack on the Lusitania
What is 1917?
These two areas of Virginia experienced growth due to advancements in computer technology?
What are Northern Virginia and Coastal Plain/Tidewater?
Lawyer and Civil Rights leader who worked for Civil Rights and played a key role in Brown vs. the Board of Education court case.
Oliver W. Hill
Places in the country, outside of the city
What is rural?
This lawyer played a key role in the Brown V Board of Education decision.
Who was Oliver W. Hill?
The Constitution was amended to give women the right to vote.
What is 1920?
This industry spurred the growth of cities and towns in Southwest Virginia.
What is coal mining?
Virginia governor who developed the "pay as you go program" and modernized state government.
Harry F. Byrd Sr.
During the 20th century Virginia change from being rural to being more _______________
What is urban?
The first African American woman to be a bank president
Who is Maggie L. Walker?
In what year did the Supreme Court rule in Brown v. Board of Education that "separate but equal" public schools were unconstitutional?
What is 1954?
This industry spurred the growth of cities in Northern Virginia.
What are federal government jobs?
16 year old high school junior who led a strike against student segregation.
Barbara Johns
Having all different types of people together
What is integration?
He was the first African American to be elected a state governor in the United States.
Who was L. Douglas Wilder?
Virginia's government passes a policy called Massive Resistance.
What is 1956?
Name a company in the Dulles Technology Corridor?
What is: Apple, Amazon, Boeing, or Microsoft?
An economic plan to ensure world peace written by George C. Marshall after WWll?
The Marshall Plan
The effort in Virginia to resist integration
What is Massive Resistance?
He was the first African American man to win a major men's singles championship in tennis.
Who was Arthur Ashe?
In what year was Linwood Holton elected governor of Virginia?
What is 1970?
VDOT stands for
Government policy that fought the integration of public schools.
Massive Resistance