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Virginia Faces New Challenges
The Great Depression and World War II
From Urban to Rural
100
created the League of Nations after World War I
Who is Woodrow Wilson
100
The use of knowledge and tools to make or do something
What is Technology
100
1. Why did farmers lose money in the late 1800s
Crop Prices were low and droughts destroyed harvests
100
1. Name the two sides in World War I?
The Allied Powers and the Central Powers
100
1. What caused the stock market crash?
Stock prices fell
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the first African American women to start a bank
Who is Maggie L. Walker
200
A person who comes from another part of the world to live in a new country
What is an immigrant
200
2. What allowed farmers to send their crops around the country in the early 1900s
Growth of railroads
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2. Virginians helped during the war by
Farmers grew more food Factory workers made weapons Women took over jobs in factories and farms
200
2. What did President Roosevelt create to stop The Great Depression?
The New Deal
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created the Marshall Plan
Who is George C. Marshall
300
Military Weapons
What is Munitions
300
3. One of the fastest growing industries in Virginia was…
Coal Mining
300
3. What did President Wilson create in order to establish world peace?
The League of Nations
300
3. The New Deal did what
create more jobs
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Served as governor from 1926 to 1930
Who is Harry F. Byrd Sr.
400
An agreement to stop fighting
What is Armistice
400
4. Besides men who else worked in factories?
Women and Children
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4. What did women receive in the early 1900s?
Suffrage
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4. World War II was fought between?
Allied Powers and Axis Powers
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Created the New Deal to end the Great Depression
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt
500
City
What is Urban
500
5. The first automobile in Virginia was made in which city?
Richmond
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5. In 1910 a law was passed stopping companies from hiring children under the age of…
14
500
5. The Marshall Plan did what
Help European countries recover after War Provide European countries with money Provide European countries with supplies