RECONSTRUCTION
This group was created to help freed African Americans after the Civil War.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
This industry grew in Southwest Virginia due to its coal deposits.
What was coal mining?
She was the Virginia-born author of the novel "The Good Earth," who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.
Who was Pearl S. Buck?
This was the name of the new state formed when western counties of Virginia refused to secede.
What is West Virginia?
This features the world’s only “Stalacpipe Organ,” which makes music by tapping stalactites.
What is Luray Caverns?
These were laws that enforced segregation between races in Virginia after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This invention helped Virginia’s economy grow by connecting cities and towns.
What are railroads?
He was the first African American governor of Virginia, elected in 1989.
Who was L. Douglas Wilder?
This city was the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
What is Richmond?
This sweet treat, popularized in Virginia during the 19th century, was often made from molasses on plantations.
What is TAFFY?
These were systems where people farmed land they didn’t own, paying with crops or rent.
What is sharecropping?
These are reasons why small farms declined in Virginia during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What are larger farms and new technology made small farms less competitive, and many farmers moved to cities for work.
She was the Virginia-born African American, born in 1818, helped enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
He was the Confederate general who led the Army of Northern Virginia.
Who is General Lee?
Arlington is home to this building, the world's largest office building.
What is the Pentagon?
This amendment abolish slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
This industry created jobs, attracted visitors, and generated revenue through hotels, restaurants, and attractions.
What is toursim?
She Virginia-born mathematician, born in 1918, helped NASA with space missions and was featured in the film "Hidden Figures".
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This was the first major battle of the Civil War, showing it would be a long and difficult war.
What is the Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) in Virginia?
This Virginia city is known for its naval base, the largest in the world?
What is Norfolk?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
These were new industries that emerged in Virginia’s cities like Richmond in the early 1900s.
What are tobacco manufacturing, textiles and banking?
This Virginia-born naval officer, born in 1813, explored Antarctica and led a scientific expedition in the 1830s.
Who was Matthew Fontaine Maury?
This was where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the Civil War.
What was Appomattox Court House?
This boosted tourism, preserved natural beauty, and provided jobs through its creation during the Great Depression, located in the western part of Virginia.
What is the Shenandoah State Park?