Vocabulary
After the Civil War
Henrico During Reconstruction
Henrico During WWI
Vocabulary 2.0
100

The rights that every person should have.

What is civil rights?

100

Lost its value when banks were closed in the South

What is Confederate money?

100

In 1888, which railway company did Henrico charter to rebuild the railroads?

What is the Richmond City and Seven Pines Railway Company?

100

What year did WWI start?

What is 1914?

100

An area relating to a large city

What is metropolitan?

200

Relating to the buying and selling of goods and services

What is commercial?

200

Was destroyed in the South, which caused land values to be depressed

What is railroads, bridges, farms, and crops? (will take a combination of any of these)

200

What railroad line extended along the south side of Nine Mile Road to Seven Pines?

What is the Seven Pines single track railroad line?

200

What was built in Highland Springs to help with the war effort?

What is an armory?

200
To keep something in its original state or in good condition

What is preservation?

300

Of or relating to the making and managing of goods and services

What is economic?

300

Had to be rebuilt after the war.

What is cities, farms, and factories? (will take a combination of any)

300

________________ transported Henrico citizens to the areas of New Bridge, Fair Oaks, and Seven Pines.

What is picnic trains?

300

The Du Pont Engineering Company and the federal government jointly agreed to build a __________________________.

What is a gun-powder packing facility?

300

The period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to help rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union

What is Reconstruction?

400

The legislative branch of a state government

What is General Assembly?

400
People moved from this city into Henrico county to find other jobs or to farm.

What is the City of Richmond?

400

In 1902, the Virginia Constitution adopted _______________ restrictions to deny the vote of African-American men. 

What is suffrage (voting)?

400

In 1918, what did the U.S. government purchase near the gun-powder packing facility in Henrico and what for?

What is 400 acres to build houses for workers?

400
An area that is mostly countryside or used for agriculture

What is rural?

500

Having factories that actively make a product

What is industrial?

500

Due to this population shift in 1867, the City of Richmond decided to _______ a portion of Henrico County to recover some of the city’s tax revenue that it had depended upon in the past.

What is annex?

500

After 1892, what was used instead of steam locomotives to transport people to and from Henrico?

What is electric streetcars?

500

In 1939, the citizens voted to change the name from the town of _____________ to the town of Sandston to honor Oliver J. Sands.



What is Fairfield?

500

An area that is made mostly of a town or city

What is urban?

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