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30 Cards in this Set
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What is Segregation?
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Separation of people usually based on their race or religion
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What is Descrimination?
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Unfair difference in the treatment of people
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What was happening for African Americans in VA during Reconstruction?
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They began to have power in VA's government and men of all races could vote.
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What was happening for African Americans in VA after Reconstruction?
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Much of what had been worked for was lost due to Jim Crow law.
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What were Jim Crow laws?
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Law that segregated or separated the races.
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What was the poll tax?
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A Jim Crow law that required African Americans to pay a tax when they went to the polls to vote. Since many balcks could not pay the tax, they were denied the right to vote
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What else were African Americans required to do to vote.
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Laws were passed requiring African-Americans to take a test in order to vote. Since blacks had not been allowed to be educated during slavery, it was hard to pass the test.
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What made it difficult for African Americans to hold public office? (mayor, senator, congressman)
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Jim Crow laws.
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What did Jim Crow laws segregate or separate for blacks and whites?
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water fountains
schools |
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After the Civil War and Reconstruction, what began to grow in VA
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cities began to grow as people, businesses and factories began to appear in cities.
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What was a major reason that buisness, agricultre and industry expaned after Reconstruction?
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Railrodes helped turn small towns into big cities. Railroad centers attracted factories where clothing and furniture were made.
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What was discovered in southwest VA after the civil war?
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coal deposits were discovered and helped create many jobs for people that lived in the area.
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At the beginning of the 20th Century, VA changed from an _______state to a ________state.
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agricultureal (farming) to an industrial (factories)
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Name two reasons why many farmers got out of the buisness of farming.
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Old methods of farming no longer worked and crop prices were low.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, VA began to change from a _______to an_______ state.
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rural (people live in the country and far apart)
urban(cities) |
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name to reasons why people moved from rural to urban areas.
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more economic opportunity in the city
technological development in transportation-road, railroads, and streetcars helped cities grow. |
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Why did the population in northern Va grow after WWII
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Federal government jobs.
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Northern VA and the Tidewater have grown due to ___________technology.
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computer technology--computer companies built businesses which created jobs and and jobs attract people.
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What is Desegregation?
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Getting rid of segration (separation) based on a person's race.
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What is Integration?
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The full equality of all races in the use of public facilities (libraries, parks, water fountains, movies, public schools.)
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When did the Supreme Court Rule that it was unconstitutional for schools to be segregated?
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1954
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What was VA ordered to do when segration was ruled unconstitutional?
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VA was ordered to integrate all of its public schools
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What did the VA government do when orded to integrate its schools
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VA refused to integrate its schools
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What is Massive Resistance
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This is what the policy of "resisting integration of the public schools" was called in VA
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What happened to Massive Resistance
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It failed and VA public schools were integrated
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Who was the VA governor who led the Massive Resistance Movement
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Harry F. Byrd
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Who was the first woman, to become a bank president of the United States. She was African America
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Magie Walker
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What policy for road improvements was Harry Byrd know for?
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Pay as you Go Policy. He did not believe you built or improved roads unless y ou had money to do that. He raised money from taxes
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Who was the firs African-American winner of a major men's tennis singles championship at Wimbeldon?
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Arthur R. Ashe, Jr.
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Who was the first African American to be elected a state governor in the US and in what state?
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Douglas Wilder in VA
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