Vocabulary
The rights that every person should have.
What is civil rights?
Lost its value when banks were closed in the South
What is Confederate money?
In 1888, which railway company did Henrico charter to rebuild the railroads?
What is the Richmond City and Seven Pines Railway Company?
What year did WWI start?
What is 1914?
An area relating to a large city
What is metropolitan?
Relating to the buying and selling of goods and services
What is commercial?
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)
What railroad line extended along the south side of Nine Mile Road to Seven Pines?
What is the Seven Pines single track railroad line?
What was built in Highland Springs to help with the war effort?
What is an armory?
What is preservation?
Of or relating to the making and managing of goods and services
What is economic?
Had to be rebuilt after the war.
What is cities, farms, and factories? (will take a combination of any)
________________ transported Henrico citizens to the areas of New Bridge, Fair Oaks, and Seven Pines.
What is picnic trains?
The Du Pont Engineering Company and the federal government jointly agreed to build a __________________________.
What is a gun-powder packing facility?
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?
The legislative branch of a state government
What is General Assembly?
What is the City of Richmond?
In 1902, the Virginia Constitution adopted _______________ restrictions to deny the vote of African-American men.
What is suffrage (voting)?
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?
What is rural?
Having factories that actively make a product
What is industrial?
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?
After 1892, what was used instead of steam locomotives to transport people to and from Henrico?
What is electric streetcars?
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?
An area that is made mostly of a town or city
What is urban?