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Question | Answer |
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Full equality of people of all races in the use of public facilities and services is called what? | integration |
What was the name of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1954 that declared "separate but equal" public schools were unconstitutional? | Brown vs. Board of Education |
What was the name of the policy in Virginia that fought the integration of public schools? | Massive Resistance |
Who was the Virginia governor who led the massive resistance movement? | Harry F. Byrd |
An unfair difference in the treatment of people is called what? | discrimination |
What is the abolishment of racial segregation called? | desegregation |
Poll taxes were the result of what laws? | Jim Crow Laws |
A system where poor farmers rented land and promised to pay the landowners a share of their crops was called what? | sharecropping |
The segregation of people, usually based on race or religion is called what? | segregation |
What in Virginia grew with people, businesses, and factories? | cities |
During Reconstruction, what government agency helped freed African Americans? | The Freedmen's Bureau |
Did the rights of African Americans increase or decrease after reconstruction? | Decrease |
The period after the Civil War when the Southern states were rebuilt is called what? | Reconstruction |
What resource was discovered in Tazewell County in Virginia? | coal |