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This court case ruled that 'separate, but equal' schools are unconstitutional.

What is Brown vs. Board of Education?

100
These are the three major language groups found in Virginia.
What is Algonquian, Siouan, and Iroquoian?
100

Some of the jobs people at home, such as women and African Americans, did to support war efforts.

What is factory work, shipyard jobs, farming, etc.?

100

Continental Army commander-in-chief and father of our country.

Who is George Washington?

100
The period of rebuilding the country and bringing the southern states back into the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
200

This teenager led a student strike to try and make schools equal for all students no matter their race.

Who is Barbara Johns?

200
This language was spoken in Southwestern Virginia and an Southern Virginia near what is today North Carolina.
What is Iroquoian?
200

He created a plan for peace and started the League of Nations.

Who is Woodrow Wilson?

200

Helped Jamestown's survival with his forced work program.

Who is John Smith?

200
This is the first major clash of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
300
The response of some people in Virginia who were against desegregation of schools.

What is Massive Resistance?

300
This group of American Indians was part of the Algonquian language group.
What is Powhatan?
300

This was attacked by the Japanese, causing the United States to join World War II.

What is Pearl Harbor?

300
This enslaved African American served in the Continental Army and successfully requested his freedom after the war.
Who is James Lafayette?
300
The General that captured and burned Richmond near the end of the war.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
400

The abolishment of racial segregration.

What is desegregation?

400
They are Virginia's Indians.
Who are the Eastern Woodland Indians?
400

This is the highest award you can receive in the military.

What is the Medal of Honor?

400

Created a blockade plan during the Civil War known as the Anaconda Plan.

Who is Winfred Scott?

400
Location of the end of the Civil War.
What is the Appomattox Court House?
500

She refused to give up her seat due to her skin color on a trip from Virginia to Maryland.

Who is Irene Morgan?

500
These people study all kinds of material evidence left by people from the past.
Who are archaeologists?
500

The sinking of this ship is one of the reasons the United States joined World War I.

What is the Lusitania? 

500

This person was the first African American elected to Congress for Virginia. He also worked for the Freedman's Bureau, fought for voting rights, and was President of the Virginia State University.

Who is John Mercer Langston?

500

Organization created after the Civil War to provide services to free African Americans such as food, medical, and education.

What is the Freedman's Bureau?