VA STUDIES UNIT 8 REBUILDING VA VOCAB REVIEW

TOPIC A

100

WHAT WAS THE FREEDMAN'S BUREAU ?

was a federal government agency that provided food, public schools, and medical care for freed African Americans and others in Virginia.

200

A FARMER WHO PAYS FOR RENTING A PIECE OF LAND BY PAYING WITH A PORTION OF THE CROP GROWN ON THAT LAND

SHARECROPPER

300

A PERSON WHO BELIEVES THAT ONE RACE IS SUPERIOR TO THE OTHERS

RACIST

400

THE PERIOD AFTER THE CIVIL WAR IN WHICH THE US CONGRESS PASSED LAWS TO REBUILD THE COUNTRY AND BRING THE SOUTHERN STATES BACK INTO THE UNION

RECONSTRCUTION 

TOPIC B

100

What major transportation system was key to the expansion of business, agriculture, and industry after the Civil War?

Railroads

200

What was the Freedmen's Bureau created to do?

Provide public schools, food, and medical care for freed African Americans and others in Virginia

300

What happened to Virginia's cities after the Civil War and Reconstruction?

The cities grew with people, businesses, and factories.

400

What was one reason that Virginia's economy was in ruins after the Civil War?

Railroads, bridges, and plantations were destroyed.

500

What happened to enslaved African Americans after the Union won the Civil War?

All enslaved African Americans were freed, and hundreds of thousands were in need of housing, food, and jobs.

TOPIC C

100

• Free black from Louisa County, Virginia, who was educated in Ohio and became a lawyer in the North
• Abolitionist who participated in the Underground Railroad in Ohio
• Recruited black volunteers to serve as soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War
• Returned to Virginia after the Civil War and became the President of a new black college in Petersburg later known as “Virginia State University”
• First African American elected to the U.S. Congress from Virginia

John Mercer Langston

200

 is an African-American college in Washington, D.C. It was started in 1867.

Howard University

300

Who was a high school student who led a student strike to protest separate and unequal schools?

Barbara Johns

400

What did some schools do in order to avoid desegregation?

They closed.

500

Which two groups of people were most affected by "Jim Crow" laws?

African Americans and Native Americans 

TOPIC D

100

served as counsel in the United States Supreme Court in the Virginia suit that was combined with others in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision declaring mandatory racial segregation unconstitutional, even under the guise of separate-but-equal.

Oliver W Byrd

200

 authored and signed the "Southern Manifesto" condemning the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. His call for "massive resistance" against desegregation of public schools led to many Virginia schools closing rather than be forced to integrate.

Harry F Byrd

300

Brown v. __________________ of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.

Board of Education

400

Plessy v. Ferguson was an important U.S. Supreme Court case concerning whether racial segregation laws were...

constitutional 

500

Segregation and discrimination had an impact on:

• Housing

• Employment

as well as....

• Health care

• Political representation

• Education

TOPIC E

100

This HBCU's hyphenated name came from the merger of two separate instutions: Bethune College and the Cookman Institute.  

Bethune Cookman 

200

This university in Alabama helped produce the film about the airmen who shared the university's name. It fittingly produces the most African-American aeronautics engineers in the United States.

Tuskegee University

300

This HBCU celebrated its 130th anniversary in 2021 in a small northeastern state that is also the home of President Biden.

Delaware State

400

This HBCU awards more degrees to African Americans in North Carolina than any other university.

NCAT

500

This men's only HBCU in Atlanta boasts such alumni as Martin Luther King, Jr, Samuel Jackson, Spike Lee, and Edwin Moses.

Morehouse