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During the 20th and 21st centuries, Virginia changed from a ________, agricultural society to a __________, industrial society.
What is rural and urban?
This was discovered in the Appalachian Plateau, specifically Tazewell County, which spurred the growth of Virginia towns and cities as people moved from the countryside to find jobs.
What is coal mining?
This term means full equality of all races in the use of public facilities such as water fountains, waiting rooms, public schools, etc.
What is integration?
This person led the Massive Resistance Movement against the desegregation of public schools
Who is Harry F. Byrd, Sr.?
Who was the first African American winner of a major men’s tennis singles championship. He was also an author and eloquent spokesperson for social change?
Who is Arthur R. Ashe, Jr.?
Agriculture began to change.
__________- and improvements in transportation changed farming.
(What is another name for making machines?)
(for example-the tractor)
What is mechanization?
In the late 20th century and the early 21st century, Northern Virginia and the Coastal Plain (Tidewater) region have grown due to what industry?
What is computer technology?
This term means the Legal end of racial segregation. Schools were closed to avoid _________.
What is desegregation?
What year was the Brown v. Board of Education case?
What is 1954?
Who, as governor of Virginia, promoted racial equality and appointed more African Americans and women to positions in state government than previous governors?
Who was A. Linwood Holton, Jr.?
Crop prices were _______
What is low?
Virginia’s population has become increasingly ___________ as people have moved to Virginia from many other states and countries. (What word means "different"?)
* This means that people with different cultural backgrounds and various lifestyles came to Virginia.
What is diverse?
This term means the separation of people, usually based on race or religion.
What is segregation?
Who was the first African American woman in the United States to establish a bank and become a bank president?
Who was Maggie L. Walker?
Who, as governor of Virginia, was the first African American to be elected a state governor in the United States?
Who was L. Douglas Wilder?
People moved from rural to urban areas for ____________ opportunities.
What is economic?
During this year________, The U.S. Constitution was amended to give women the right to vote.
What is 1920?
This policy was established to fight or "resist" the integration of public schools. It did not succeed. It failed.
What is the policy of Massive Resistance?
Who, as governor of Virginia, was known for a “Pay As You Go” policy for road improvements, and he modernized Virginia state government?
Who was Harry F. Byrd, Sr.?
1.) What is the term for an area that means country?
2. ) What is the term for an area that means city?
1. What is rural?
2. What is urban?
Technological developments in transportation such as these helped cities to grow.
What are roads, railroads, and streetcars?
The federal government established ____________ programs to provide employment and ease many hardships during the Great Depression.
What is The New Deal?
All public schools, including those in Virginia, were ordered to __________.
What is desegregate?
Who was a lawyer and civil rights leader, who worked for equal rights of African Americans. He played a key role in the Brown v. Board of Education decision?
Who is Oliver W. Hill?
As a result of the ______ _________ Movement, laws were passed that made racial discrimination illegal.
A. African American Movement
B. Civil Rights Movement C. Homestead Act
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
______________ was the 16-year-old high school junior in Farmville, Virginia, who led a student strike against segregation in 1951?
A. Rosa Parks, B. Barbara Johns, C. Ruby Bridges
Who is Barbara Johns?
The case, Davis v. Prince Edward, became of one of the five cases reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court when it declared segregation unconstitutional in the court case _______________.
A.) Brown v. Board of Education, B.) Roberts v. Board of Education, or C.) Blankenship vs. Board of Education
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
In the court case, Brown v. Board of Education, what did the courts declare was unconstitutional?
A. Integration, B. desegregation, or C. segregation
What is segregation?
What does unconstitutional mean?
A. against the constitution, B. legal, C. unknown
It means "against the constitution".
The ______________was a period of worldwide harsh economic conditions during the 1930s.
*Many Virginians lost their jobs, farms, homes, and businesses.
What is the Great Depression?