The New Virginia Test

How many Virginians received the Medal of Honor in World War II?

9

This cigarette manufacturer used new marketing techniques and cheap child labor to become the largest cigarette manufacturer in Richmond.

Allen and Ginter

In one or two sentences, explain how Allen & Ginter popularized the baseball card.

Allen and Ginter popularized the baseball card by including it in their cigarettes; the cigarettes and the cards were compactly fit together to ensure their safety. Tobacco and cigarettes were a huge boom at this time and including baseball cards made more people want to buy their cigarettes to get more baseball cards to complete their "sets".

Where is the National D-Day Memorial located?

Bedford

After the Norfolk and Western and Shenandoah Valley Railroads made this town home, this city changed its name to Roanoke.

Big Lick

Who was the first African-American Congressman from Virginia?

Bobby Scott

What Virginia city became the center for tobacco, the tobacco market, and cigarette manufacturing in the late 1800s?

Danville

Who was the first person of African descent to serve as Governor of Virginia?

Douglas Wilder

The election of __________________ __________ in 1885 was evidence of the growing Lost Cause mentality in Virginia.

Fitzhugh Lee

In the 1870s farmers created an association, the Patrons of Husbandry, also known as the __________________.

Grange

During the _____________ ________________, over 7 million African Americans moved away from the South to the economic opportunity and political freedom of Northern cities.

Great Migration

Ten percent of US soldiers departing for Europe went through which port?

Hampton Roads

How did Wilson propose to ensure world peace after the war?

He proposed the League of Nations.

Who was the editor of of the Atlanta Constitution and the leader of the "New South" movement?

Henry Grady

Which Virginia governor finally declared that Virginia schools must integrate?

J. Lindsay Almond

Who was the North Carolina businessman who was able to purchase Bonsack's machine and eventually formed the American Tobacco Company?

James B. Duke

Who was the first woman to serve in the Virginia House of Delegates?

Kathryn Stone

Who was the first Virginia woman to win a seat in Congress?

Leslie Byrne

What Readjuster argued that the New South movement was the only way for Virginia to gain prosperity?

Lewis Blair

In which Southern state did the KKK kill over 1,000 people?

Louisiana

Who was the first woman to win statewide political office in Virginia?

Mary Sue Terry

What Virginia governor broke with many of Byrd's policies and established a constitutional convention in 1971 to make a new frame of government?

Mills Goodwin

Woodrow Wilson was governor of what US State?

New Jersey

In the city of ______________, 10,000 students were unable to attend school for five years because of Massive Resistance.

Norfolk

What states replaced Virginia as the leaders in tobacco production in the nation in the late 1800s? (choose all that apply)

North Carolina Kentucky

Whose openly racist rhetoric in the 1889 gubernatorial election evidenced the acceptability of this position in the late nineteenth century?

Philip Watkins McKinney

Which political party claimed to represent Virginia's poor, no matter the race?

Readjusters

The Virginia city of __________________ installed a large electric trolley system in 1888, expanding the city outward

Richmond

The Lost Cause interpretation deifies _______________.

Robert E. Lee

Who argued that the New South movement was a trick of the devil to corrupt Southern morals?

Robert Lewis Dabney

What landmark film introduced the ideas that made emancipated African Americans in the South a threat to democracy?

The Birth of a Nation

In one or two sentences, explain what was unusual about the Constitution of 1971.

The constitution of 1971 had two key factors or things that it changed: it put more financial power into the hands of the people and more notably ensured that every single child in Virginia was guaranteed good, quality education. Putting such an emphasis on education was quite unheard of at that time.

List and explain two of the key actions to expand the voting franchise in the second half of the twentieth century.

The first key action was the ratification of the 24th amendment which outlawed poll taxes and a second key action was the civil rights law which banned literacy tests and allowed people to actually register to vote themselves.

In one or two sentences, explain the results of the Constitution of 1902?

The results of the constitution of 1902 were it enacted vital reforms such as primaries for senate candidates, the creation of the state corporation commission task with the regulation of railroads for fairer systems, a more efficient court system, prison reform, and funding for internal improvements. The 1902 constitution also drastically helped the school system through more efficient funding, but the reforms sadly discriminated against the blacks.

As part of Massive Resistance in Virginia, this governor declared that any locality attempting to desegregate its schools would lose state funding.

Thomas B. Stanley

Which of the following were among the first public colleges in Virginia created in the 1870s? [choose all that apply]

Virginia Tech Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute

How did Virginia become involved in the debate regarding Populism and the minting of silver in the 1890s? (Answer in one or two sentences)

Virginia became involved in the debate regarding populism and the minting of silver because many Virginians were angry with the lobbyists blunting the bill making sure railroad companies see the commissioner's salary. Therefore the Virginians saw this as disrespectful and many of them joined the populists in 1892.

In three or four sentences, describe how Virginia was connected to the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Virginia was connected to the Brown v Board of education decision because this was the supreme court ruling that declared the "separate, but equal" slogan. Racism was a huge issue in the south and especially prominent in Virginia. Virginia held onto this ideal and they simply would not integrate the blacks with the whites and this became an ongoing issue for years in Virginia. I should also note that even after all of the provisions from the constitution of 1902 Virginia still held onto this flawed idea of "separate, but equal".

Which of the following was Virginia's first superintendent of public schools?

William Henry Ruffner

Woodrow Wilson served as President during ________________.

World War I

As a marketing technique, Allen & Ginter developed and popularized the ______________ __________ as we know it today.

baseball card

By 1880, which of the following were the leading industries in Richmond? (choose all that apply)

cigarette manufacturing flour milling ironworks

The Olcott Settlement settled the issue of Virginia's ______________.

debt

Military ___________ boosted Virginia's economy.

expenditures

While industry was on the rise, _____________ were in economic distress.

farmers

Harry Byrd used his __________ _________ to steer voters to elect presidential candidates of his choice.

golden silence

Which of the following was NOT a flaw in the sharecropping/tenant farming systems?

it forced farmers to make their children work the farms instead of attending school

Which of the following has been one of the most destructive results of the Lost Cause interpretation?

it provides a justification for racism

How was the Lost Cause interpretation viewed in the North?

it was accepted almost without question

Virginia Governor James Lawson Kemper saw education as a __________________, not a necessity.

luxury

Part of the vision of the New South was to end the domination of the ________________.

planter aristocracy

The main focus of segregation in the 1890s concerned _________________.

railroads

What issue brought Byrd to political prominence?

road infrastructure

In a _____________________ contract, a family worked a small part of a large farm in exchange for part of the crop.

sharecrop

The first tenet of the Lost Cause interpretation is that ______________ was not the cause of the Civil War.

slavery

The Southern Historical Society and the Southern Historical Society Papers began with the purpose of _______________.

supporting the Lost Cause interpretation

In the post-Civil War period, railroad companies rebuilt infrastructure by the benefit of ___________________.

tax breaks and government grants

In a _____________ contract, a family rented land from a landowner and used part of the crop raised as payment.

tenant

After the Civil War, the ________________ industry expanded in the South, replacing the North as the largest producer in the nation.

textile

In 1884, the General Assembly passed what act that limited political participation of black Virginians?

the Anderson-McCormick Act

Prior to joining the war, the United States supported the Allies through __________.

the Lend-Lease program

Collis Huntington expanded the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad with the creation of ______________.

the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company

What economic crisis doomed many small Virginia towns?

the Panic of 1893

Voting for one party on a state level and the opposite party on a national level is known as _______ - __________.

ticket splitting

The harsh terms of the _______ __ ________ contributed to the outbreak of World War II.

treaty of Versailles