BIG MONEY
MODERN VIRGINIANS
CHANGES
20th Century
Reconstruction
100
A product used to barter in the early colony and is often referred to as a "cash crop".
What is tobacco?
100
First African American female bank president.
Who is Maggie Lena Walker?
100
Stated "separate but equal" public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education.
100
Many Virginians lost their jobs during the Great Depression, but they recovered with the help of this program.
What is the New Deal?
100
Unfair poll taxes and voting taxes are examples of this.
What are Jim Crow laws?
200
Colonists would receive goods now and pay later.
What is credit?
200
Promoted racial equality by hiring more African Americans and women to government jobs.
Who is A. Linwood Holton?
200
During the 20th century, Virginia changed from a rural, agricultural society to this.
What is urban, industrialized society?
200
Women earned the right to do this from the 19th Amendment of the Constitution.
What is vote?
200
An unfair difference in treatment of people.
What is discrimination?
300
The number of banks in Jamestown.
What is zero?
300
Harry F. Bryd's policy to resist the integration of schools.
What is massive resistance?
300
These two factors changed the agriculture industry in Virginia during the 20th century.
What is mechanization and low crop prices?
300
Declared "separate but equal" policy in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown versus the Board of Education?
300
The picture below is an example of this.
Who is segregation?
400
Someone offered a good or service in exchange for another. Often used instead of money.
What is barter?
400
Court case that included Barbara Johns.
What is Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward?
400
Helped the growth of small towns into cities.
What are railroads?
400
The end of segregation.
What is desegregation?
400
This government agency was established to help freed African Americans and others in Virginia.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
500
Virginia's economy and primary source of wealth.
What is agriculture?
500
Lawyer and Civil Rights leader.
Who is Oliver W. Hill?
500
These three events changed the Virginia colony during the years of 1619-1620.
What is the arrival of women, arrival of Africans against their will, and meeting of the first representative government?
500
I was Governor of Virginia and I improved the roads and modernized the state government.
Who is Harry F. Byrd, Sr.?
500
Freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from landowners by promising to pay the owners with a share of the crops.
What is sharecropping?