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