Virginia 20th Century and Beyond

Northern Virginia and the Coastal Plain (Tidewater) region have grown due to _____.

• coal production

• tobacco farming

• computer technology

• fabric manufacturing

During the twentieth century and beyond, Virginia changed from a rural and agricultural society to a more _____ society.

• urban and industrialized

• farming and country

• hunting and gathering

• garden and ranching

GREAT DEPRESSION ISSUES

Unemployment

Abandoned Farms

Lost Homes

Closed Businesses

What was a solution to the hardships Virginians faced during the Great Depression? 

• Massive Resistance

• Women's Suffrage

• New Deal programs

• Brown v. Board of Education

What was the period of harsh economic conditions worldwide during the 1930s called?

• New Deal

• Massive Resistance

• Great Depression

• Civil Rights Movement

Lawyer

Civil Rights leader

Worked for equal rights of African Americans

Played a key role in the Brown v. Board of Education decision

Who is described in the list? 

• L. Douglas Wilder

• Harry F. Byrd, Sr.

• L. Linwood Holton, Jr.

• Oliver W. Hill

Virginia’s lawmakers fought against integration by closing schools. This policy was called ____.

• desegregation

• Civil Rights movement

• equality

• Massive Resistance

What statements replace the question marks to complete the graphic organizer?

• Shortage of mechanization for farming

• Technological developments in transportation

• High crop prices

• Coal mining

Who was the first African American to be elected a state governor in the United States?

• Thurgood Marshall

• L. Douglas Wilder

• Arthur R. Ashe, Jr.

• A. Linwood Holton, Jr.

With the New Deal, _____ began to take on a much larger role in the daily lives of Virginians.

• the Constitution

• suffrage

• the federal government

• urbanization

In Brown v. Board of Education, the United States Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal schools" were _____.

• legal

• unconstitutional

• constitutional

• able to be determined by states