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Total questions: 33

Worksheet time: 38mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Segregation or separation of the races was reinforced by the ________________ that were passed.

a)

Poll Taxes

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Constitution

2.

Name the two laws that were established that kept African American men from voting.

a)

Poll Taxes

b)

Driving Requirements

c)

Voting Tests

d)

Land Requirements

3.

What is the abolishment of racial segregation called?

a)

Abolitionist

b)

Segregation

c)

Desegregation

4.

What is the full equality of all races in the use of public facilities called?

a)

desegregation

b)

integration

c)

segregation

5.

What is the separation of people, usually based on race or religion?

a)

segregation

b)

desegregation

c)

integration

6.

What is an unfair difference in the treatment of people?

a)

Integration

b)

Desegregation

c)

Discrimination

7.

A medium of exchange; currency, coins and paper bills is called _____________________.

a)

Money

b)

Credit

c)

Debt

8.

Trading or exchanging of goods and services without using money is called ___________________.

a)

Savings

b)

Barter

c)

Credit

9.

Getting a good or service now and paying for it later is called _________________.

a)

Debt

b)

Credit

c)

Savings

10.

Money put away to keep or spend at a later time is called ________________.

a)

Credit

b)

Debt

c)

Savings

11.

Colonial Virginia had no ______________ because people did not have money. They used tobacco or barter instead.

a)

banks

b)

money

c)

ships

12.

A good or service owed to another is called ______________.

a)

Barter

b)

Debt

c)

Credit

13.

What is Virginia's court system called?

a)

Judicial System

b)

Court

c)

White House

14.

What is the name of the legislative branch of Virginia's government?

a)

General Assembly

b)

Parliament

c)

Congress

15.

Name the two parts of the Virginia General Assembly.

a)

House of Delegates

b)

Congress

c)

Senate

d)

President

16.

What U.S. Supreme Court case ruled that "separate but equal" public schools were against the Constitution?

a)

1954 Brown vs. Board of Education

b)

The House of Burgesses

c)

Freedmans Bureau

17.

What policy was established that fought to "resist" the integration of public schools?

a)

Abolitionist

b)

Massive Resistance

c)

Freedmans Bureau

18.

What was the period years following the end of the Civil War called?

a)

Civil War

b)

Reconstruction

c)

Revolutionary War

19.

What was the government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for freed slaves?

a)

Freedman's Bureau

b)

Abolitionist

c)

Army

20.

When freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner promising to pay the owner a share of the crop it was called _________________.

a)

Slavery

b)

Debt

c)

Sharecropping

21.

People who wanted to put an end to slavery were called ___________________.

a)

Abolitionist

b)

Freedman's Bureau

c)

Desegregation

22.

What was the secret route called that helped slaves escape?

a)

Underground Railroad

b)

Secret Passage

c)

Reconstruction

23.

Some Virginians were neutral during the American Revolution. That means _____________________.

a)

They fought for the British

b)

They did not take sides in the war

c)

They fought for the Patriots

24.

Virginians who remained loyal to Great Britain were called __________________.

a)

Patriots

b)

Loyalist

c)

Neutrals

25.

Representatives to the first General Assembly were called ________________.

a)

Parliament

b)

Congress

c)

Burgesses

26.

By the 1640s the burgesses became a separate legislative body called __________________.

a)

The House of Burgesses

b)

The House of Congress

c)

The White House

27.

The __________________ was the first representative legislative body in English America.

a)

Parliament

b)

General Assembly of 1619

c)

Congress

28.

Who studies material evidence left by people from the past?

a)

biologist

b)

archeologists

c)

audiologist

29.

Arrowheads, pottery, and other tools that have been found and tell about the Virginia are called _______________.

a)

Artifact

b)

Remain

c)

Object that means nothing

30.

What is a piece of land bordered by water on three sides?

a)

Plateau

b)

Peninsula

c)

Island

31.

What is an area of elevated land that is flat on top?

a)

Plateau

b)

Peninsula

c)

Island

32.

What is the natural border between the Tidewater and Piedmont regions?

a)

Valley

b)

Mountains

c)

The Fall Line

33.

A crop that is grown to sell for money rather than for use by the growers is called a __________________.

a)

Cash Crop

b)

Tobacco

c)

Important Crop