Test #9: 20th and 21st Century
1. What 3 technological developments helped VA’s cities grow?
a. Roads, railroads, and street cars
2. What 2 areas of VA have grown because of computer technology?
a. Northern VA and Tidewater
3. Define intergration.
a. Full equality of all races in the use of public facilities
4. Define desegregation.
a. Abolishment, or ending, of racial segregation
5. Who was the first African American governor in the United States?
a. L. Douglas Wilder
6. Who was governor of VA and walked his daughter to an integrated school?
a. A. Linwood Holton, Jr.
7. Who was the first African American to win Wimbledon, worked for social change, and has a U.S. Tennis Center stadium named in his honor?
a. Arthur R. Ashe, Jr.
8. What was Massive Resistance?
a. A plan to stop the integration of public schools
9. How are Oliver Hill and Harry Byrd different on the issue of civil rights?
a. Hill worked for civil rights and Byrd worked against them.
10. High-tech industries have caused many cities in northern VA to-
a. Grow
11. Who created the Marshall Plan and what did it create?
a. George C. Marshall, created an economic plan to ensure world peace
12. Governor Harry F. Byrd, Sr. is known to help VA by-
a. The “Pay as you go” plan to build roads using gas taxes
13. Who supported women’s suffrage, ran for state office, and was the first African American woman in the U.S. to start a bank?
a. Maggie Lena Walker
14. How did President Wilson try to bring world peace?
a. Wrote a plan for world peace
15. Why did many people move from rural to urban areas in VA?
a. Economic opportunities (jobs)
16. What caused many farms in VA to become smaller in the late 1800s?
a. Crop prices dropped
1. What 3 technological developments helped VA’s cities grow?
a. Roads, railroads, and street cars
2. What 2 areas of VA have grown because of computer technology?
a. Northern VA and Tidewater
3. Define intergration.
a. Full equality of all races in the use of public facilities
4. Define desegregation.
a. Abolishment, or ending, of racial segregation
5. Who was the first African American governor in the United States?
a. L. Douglas Wilder
6. Who was governor of VA and walked his daughter to an integrated school?
a. A. Linwood Holton, Jr.
7. Who was the first African American to win Wimbledon, worked for social change, and has a U.S. Tennis Center stadium named in his honor?
a. Arthur R. Ashe, Jr.
8. What was Massive Resistance?
a. A plan to stop the integration of public schools
9. How are Oliver Hill and Harry Byrd different on the issue of civil rights?
a. Hill worked for civil rights and Byrd worked against them.
10. High-tech industries have caused many cities in northern VA to-
a. Grow
11. Who created the Marshall Plan and what did it create?
a. George C. Marshall, created an economic plan to ensure world peace
12. Governor Harry F. Byrd, Sr. is known to help VA by-
a. The “Pay as you go” plan to build roads using gas taxes
13. Who supported women’s suffrage, ran for state office, and was the first African American woman in the U.S. to start a bank?
a. Maggie Lena Walker
14. How did President Wilson try to bring world peace?
a. Wrote a plan for world peace
15. Why did many people move from rural to urban areas in VA?
a. Economic opportunities (jobs)
16. What caused many farms in VA to become smaller in the late 1800s?
a. Crop prices dropped