Transitions in VA
During the 20th century, Virginia changed from a rural, agricultural society, to a ________ society.
What is urban, industrialized?
The year/amendment when women were given the right to vote.
What is 1920 in the 19th Amendment?
The separation of people, usually based on race or religion.
What is segregation?
Virginian who was the first African American winner of a major men’s tennis championship and an author and spokesperson for social change.
Who is Arthur Ashe?
This industry helped grow the Northern Virginia and Coastal Plain regions.
The mechanization of farm equipment, like the tractor, meant less people could do more _____.
What is work?
An African American leader from Virginia who supported equal rights for women.
Who is Maggie L. Walker?
The legal end of racial segregation.
What is desegregation?
First African American elected governor of Virginia.
Who is L. Douglas Wilder?
Roads, railroads, and streetcards are forms of this.
What is transportation technology?
As a result of mechanization, crop prices were ____.
What is low?
A period of harsh economic conditions worldwide during the 1930s.
What is the New Deal?
Thurgood Marshall and Oliver Hill. Sr. were lawyers who played a key role in the __________ decision.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
Virginian who was a governor of Virginia who promoted racial equality and appointed more African Americans and women to government positions than any previous governor.
Who is Linwood Holton?
This industry grew due to more mining jobs becoming available.
What is coal mining?
Virginia’s population became more _______________ in the twentieth century because people moved to Virginia from many other states and countries.
What is diverse?
Virginian who led a student strike against segregation in Virginia’s public schools.
Who is Barbara Johns?
Virginia’s government established a policy of _____________, which fought to resist the desegregation of public schools in Virginia.
What is Massive Resistance?
An African-American teacher and business woman. She was the first female in the United States to establish a bank and become a bank president. She also supported equal rights for women.
Who is Maggie Walker?
This is the full equality of all races in the use of public facilities.
What is integration?
During the twentieth century, Northern Virginia experienced growth due to increases in ____________________________ located in the region.
The federal government established this program to provide employment and ease many hardships.
What is the New Deal programs?
Led the Massive Resistance movement against the desegregation of public schools in Virginia.
Who is Harry F. Byrd, Sr.?
Harry F. Byrd’s “pay-as-you-go” policy helped Virginia fund improvements for Virginia’s _____________.
This was the end result of Massive Resistance.
What is it failed and schools were integrated?