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20th and 21st Century VB 5.5.1-5.5.4

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

5.5.1 All of these are reasons Virginia changed from a rural to urban society EXCEPT:

a)

Old systems of farming was no longer useful.

b)

Tobacco was no longer a cash crop.

c)

Farmers moved from working with animals to using machinery.

d)

Crop prices were low.

2.

5.5.1 Industries like coal mining encouraged the growth of towns and cities as people moved from rural areas to find jobs.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

3.

5.5.1 Why did Northern Virginia and the Coastal Plain Regions experience growth during the 20th and 21st century?

a)

Increase in Federal jobs

b)

Increase in horse farms

c)

Increase in teaching jobs

d)

Increase in computer technology jobs

4.

5.5.2 In 1920 how was the United States Constitution amended?

a)

The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote.

b)

They added an amendment to allow 18 year olds the right to vote.

c)

The 20th Amendment gave women the right to vote

d)

They added an amendment that forbid teachers from giving homework.

5.

5.5.2 Which African American leader from Virginia supported equal rights for women?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Missy Elliot

c)

Maggie L. Walker

d)

Eleanor Roosevelt

6.

5.5.2 What was women's suffrage?

a)

A movement by women for economic, social, and political equality that started in the late 1800's

b)

Women who suffered during World War ll

c)

A protest to allow women the right to drive

d)

Women suffering from old age.

7.

5.5.2 The Great Depression was:

a)

a time when crops would not grow

b)

the time right after the Civil War

c)

a time when Syracuse basketball lost in the Final Four

d)

a time of harsh economic conditions during the 1930s

8.

5.5.2 During the Great Depression many Virginians lost their:

a)

jobs and businesses

b)

farms

c)

homes

d)

friends

9.

5.2.2 The federal government established _________ programs to create solutions.

a)

technology

b)

Reconstruction

c)

Massive Resistance

d)

New Deal

10.

5.5.3 After World War ll:

a)

the Civil Rights Movement began

b)

African Americans demanded equal rights

c)

African Americans insisted recognition of their rights as American citizens.

d)

Women's Suffrage began.

11.

5.5.3 The separation of people usually based on race or religion.

a)

integration

b)

separatism

c)

segregation

d)

desegregation

12.

5.5.3 The abolishment, or legal end, of racial segregation

a)

desegregation

b)

secede

c)

integration

d)

segregation

13.

5.5.3 Integration is the full equality of all races in the use of public facilities and services.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

14.

5.5.3 What were "Jim Crow' Laws?

a)

Laws passed by southern states.

b)

Legally established the segregation of schools.

c)

Laws passed during Reconstruction.

d)

Children of different races were integrated.

15.

5.5.3 In 1951, Barbara Johns led a student strike. She was a 16 year old from Farmville, Virginia. As a result:

a)

She was expelled and sent to her room.

b)

Her case became part of a case that led the Supreme Court to declare segregation unconstitutional.

c)

Her case was one of the 5 cases reviewed in Brown v. Board of Education.

d)

This led to the court case of Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward.

16.

5.5.3 In the 1954 case of Brown v. Board of Education the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that:

a)

"separate but equal" public schools were unconstitutional.

b)

all schools must desegregate.

c)

schools in Virginia must close.

d)

the Board of Education had the right to avoid integration.

17.

5.5.3 Virginia fought to resist the integration of public schools. This was called:

a)

Harry F. Byrd Declaration

b)

Massive Resistance

c)

"Jim Crow Laws"

d)

The Civil Rights Movement

18.

5.5.4 This Virginian was a military leader and created an economic plan to ensure world peace after World War ll.

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

A. Linwood Holton Jr.

c)

George Marshall

d)

L. Douglas Wilder

19.

5.5.4 I believe, as Governor of Virginia, in racial equality. Therefore I appointed more African Americans and women to positions in state government than governors that came before me.

a)

A. Linwood Holton, Jr.

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

L. Douglas Wilder

d)

Harry F. Byrd

20.

L. Douglas Wilder was:

a)

a governor of Virginia

b)

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

c)

known for "pay as you go"

d)

wrote a plan for world peace

21.

5.5.4 "Working for equal rights of African Americans was important to me. As a lawyer and civil rights leader I played a key role in Brown v. Board of Education."

a)

Olivia Mountain

b)

Maggie L. Walker

c)

George C. Marshall

d)

Oliver W. Hill, Sr.

22.

5.5.4 All of these are true about Maggie L. Walker EXCEPT:

a)

Was a Virginian

b)

Became a bank president.

c)

Was the first African American woman in the United States to establish a bank.

d)

Supported Women's rights

e)

Modernized the state government

23.

5.5.4 "I won a major men's tennis singles championship. I was an eloquent speaker and author. As an African American from Virginia, I spoke out for social change."

a)

Arthur R. Ashe, Jr.

b)

Woodrow Wilson

c)

Lebron James

d)

James Lafayette

24.

Harry F. Byrd, Sr.

a)

Governor of Virginia

b)

Known for "pay as you go" policy for road improvements

c)

Modernized the state government

d)

Led Massive Resistance in Virginia

e)

Supported Brown v. Board of Education.

25.

5.5.4 Woodrow Wilson was a twentieth-century president who wrote a plan for peace after World War l.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE