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