20th Cent
A period of harsh economic conditions worldwide. Many Virginians lost their jobs, farms, and homes.
What is the Great Depression?
The creation of these 2 things made it difficult for African Americans and Native Americans to vote.
What are poll taxes and literacy tests?
After some southern states seceded, they formed this new "country".
What was the Confederate States of America?
The unfair difference in the treatment of people
What is discrimination?
A civil rights lawyer during the 20th century
Who is Oliver Hill?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This major transportation system was key to the expansion of business, agriculture, and industry after the Civil War.
What are railroads?
The location where the Civil War ended
Where is Appomattox Court House, VA?
The legal end of racial segregation
What is desegregation?
The Union general captured Petersburg, Virginia, in order to clear the way for an attack on the Confederate capital?
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The federal government established programs to provide employment and ease many hardships.
What is the New Deal?
These two groups of people participated in sharecropping in Virginia after the war
Who are Native Americans and freedmen (newly freed African Americans)?
The result of the Battle of the Ironclads.
What was a tie?
A person who wants to end slavery
What is an abolitionist?
The first African American to be elected state governor
Who is L. Douglas Wilder?
This contributed to the transformation of Virginia’s economy during the early 20th century
What is the mechanization of agriculture and the improvement in transportation?
The years after the Civil War, when Congress passed laws to help rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
The first major battle of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Bull Run/Manassas?
The full equality of people of all races in the use of public facilities and services
What is intergration?
An enslaved Black carpenter and preacher who led a four-day rebellion of both enslaved and free Black people in Southampton County, Virginia in August 1831.
Name Both to recieve the points
This movement focused on the civil rights of groups commonly discriminated against.
This movement was in response to oppose the above movement.
What is the Civil Rights Movement and Massive Resistance?
These are the ways Virginia's economy was in ruins after the Civil War.
What was banks were closed, people lost their homes and businesses, money had no value, and railroads, bridges, and plantations were destroyed?
The party that won the Civil War
Who is the Union?
A common practice during this period was when a person rented farm land and paid the landowner with a share of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
The abolitionist who led a raid on the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Who is John Brown?