20th Century Study Guide

Questions:

1. What type of job increased in Virginia after World War two?

2. What is Douglas Wilder known for?

3. What was massive resistance?

4. What happened to massive resistance?

5. What is Maggie Walker known for?

6. The Civil Rights movement caused laws to be passed that made what illegal?

7. Harry Byrd is known for what?

8. Why was the "Brown vs. Board of Education case" important?

9. What is desegregation?

10. What is integration?

Answers:
1. Federal jobs (government jobs)

2. Being the first African American elected as governor of any state

3. A plan to fight integration by closing schools

4. It failed and schools were integrated

5. She was the first African American bank president in the United States.

6. Racial discrimination

7. His "pay as you go" plan of road improvements, and also for leading massive resistance.

8. In that case the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" schools were unconstitutional.

9. Abolishment of racial segregation

10. Full equality of all races in the use of public facilities (everyone can use every school, water fountain etc.)