VS.9a Rural to Urban

What is one example of something that changed farming because of mechanization and improvements in transportation?

• cars

• tractors

• crops

• plows

What was wrong with crop prices?

• They were high.

• They stayed the same.

• They were low.

• They went up and down.

Why did people move from rural to urban areas?

• For economic opportunities

• They didn't like farming.

• They liked cities.

• For more shopping.

In what examples did technological developments in transportation help cities grow?

• road

• railroads

• cars

• streetcars

What mining helped Virginia grow?

• gold

• silver

• copper

• coal

During the twentieth century, Northern Virginia experienced growth due to an increase in the number of ___________________________________________ jobs located in the region.

• mining

• federal government

• farming

• railroad

What two areas grew in the late twentieth century and the early twenty-first century because of computer technology?

• Northern Virginia

• Piedmont

• Southwest Virginia

• Coastal Plain (Tidewater

Virginia’s population has become increasingly diverse because people have moved from where?

• around the state

• other states

• other countries

• from Great Britain