VS. 8
What were the legally established segregation laws that reinforced prejudices held by the whites?
Jim Crow Laws
When did women get the right to vote?
1920
What is the making of goods on a large scale?
Manufacturing
What branch of government includes the state's court system?
judicial
What is full equality of all races in the use of public facilities?
integration
What was the key to expansion of businesses, agriculture, and industry?
railroads
Who led the movement to resist the desegregation of public schools?
Harry F. Byrd Sr.
What is a major part of Virginia's economy across the starte?
Tourism
What is the unfair opinion of people based on their differences?
Prejudice
Describe Virginia's economy after the Civil War.
in ruins
What is the time period after the Civil War?
Reconstruction
Who promoted racial equality and appointed more African Americans and women to positions in the state government than any other governor?
Linwood Holton
What does Virginia export?
agricultural goods and manufactured products
Who was the first African American to be elected a state governor in the USA?
L. Douglas Wilder
Name 2 of Virginia's top manufactured products.
ships, tobacco products, beverages, chemical goods, trucks
What federal government agency provided food, schools, and medical care for freed African Americans and others in Virginia following the Civil War?
Freedman's Bureau
What 1954 US Supreme Court declared segregation or "Separate but Equal" was unconstitutional?
Brown vs. the board of Education
What branch of government includes the general assembly, which is the Senate and the House of Delegates?
Legislative
What did African Americans and American Indians have to do in order to vote after Reconstruction? (2)
Pay poll taxes and pass literacy tests
Why did people move from Rural to Urban areas?
economic opportunities
What did the Confederacy rely on enslaved African Americans to do during the civil war? (2)
raise crops and provide labor for the army
What was Virginia governments policy that fought to resist the desegregation of public schools?
Massive Resistance
What made agriculture an important industry in Virginia? (2)
What has made shipbuilding, fishing, crabbing, and oyster harvesting possible in the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean?
Access to deepwater ports and proximity to the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean
What side did most enslaved African Americans follow during the civil war?
Union