What type of transportations helped Virginia business agriculture and industry grow during the 20th century?
railroads
streetcars
cars
roads
During the Great Depression people did not have _________ or enough _______.
shelter or enough food
Complete the sentence: In Norfolk, VA the Norfolk 17 were the first seventeen students integrate....
public schools
______________ and improvements in transportation changed farming. An example would be a tractor.
Urbanization
Mechanization
Industrialization
Segregation
Which of these describes a significant change in Virginia's society during the 1900s?
Increase in urbanization
Decline in education
Decrease in population
Return to farming
What significant right did women gain in 1920?
The right to own property
The right to work
The right to drive
The right to vote
How did the Great Depression affect Virginia?
It created widespread unemployment and economic hardship
It improved Virginia's economy
It had no impact on Virginia
It only affected northern Virginia
Who was the first African American woman to establish and become president of a bank?
Maggie L. Walker
Rosa Parks
Patricia Turner
Barbara Johns
What was Massive Resistance in Virginia during the 1950s?
A movement to support the desegregation of public schools
A policy to resist the desegregation of public schools
A federal program promoting school integration
What did Brown v. Board of Education decide?
Schools could stay segregated
Schools could not be segregated anymore
The case had no effect on schools
Segregation in schools was fair
_________________ was a civil rights activist who, as a teenager, led a student strike at Robert Russa Moton High School against school segregation in 1951.
Barbara Johns
Who led the Massive Resistance movement and refused to support or cooperate with school desegregation?
Arthur R. Ashe
Oliver W. Hill
L. Douglas Wilder
Harry F. Byrd Sr.
Who was Oliver W. Hill Sr.?
A teacher who led protests against school integration
A politician who supported school segregation
A civil rights lawyer who fought for desegregation of schoo
Arthur R. Ashe Jr. was the first African American man to win a major men's championship in which sport?
Football
Tennis
Baseball
Basketball
Who was L. Douglas Wilder?
The first African American governor of Virginia
A civil rights activist
A famous inventor
A business leader
What impact did World War II have on Virginia's economy?
It had no effect
It decreased population growth
It led to more farming
It increased industrial production and federal jobs
