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Virginia State History: 20 Century (1900-End of WWII)
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Unit Quiz
Student Name: _______________________________________ Date: ____________________
For each of the following slides/questions, fill-in-the-blanks:
Question Statement(s)
Part A: 1900-1919
1. The Virginia State Constitution of 1902 required a ______________ or literacy test as a
condition of eligibility to vote.
2. In 1912, President Taft and former President Roosevelt divided the
national Republican party vote and let the Democrat
________________________ , from Virginia, get elected President of
the US.
3. Virginia’s prohibition began in ____________, three years before
national prohibition began.
4. The immediate trigger for WWI was the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of
_____________________ and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo in 1914.
5. American troops entered the trenches on the Western Front in France in ____________(year);
and, after a series of successful Allied offensives, Germany surrendered on Armistice Day, the
11 of November 1918.
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6. President Wilson represented the US at the conference which resulted in
the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Although the US did NOT become a
member, this Treaty established the _______________________ of Nations
– the forerunner of our United Nations today.
7. Virginia’s most outspoken suffragette was ________________
__________________ who founded the Suffrage League of Virginia (later
called the “VA League of Women Voters”.)
Part B: 1920-1939
8. The __________________________ _______________
runs from Mt. Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mt. in
Georgia – 1/4 of the it lies in Virginia.
9. The brother of former Governor and US Senator Harry
Flood Byrd of Winchester was a famous explorer and was
the 1 man to fly over the _______________________.
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Unit Quiz

Student Name: _______________________________________ Date: ____________________ For each of the following slides/questions, fill-in-the-blanks: Question Statement(s) Part A: 1900-

  1. The Virginia State Constitution of 1902 required a ______________ or literacy test as a condition of eligibility to vote.
  2. In 1912, President Taft and former President Roosevelt divided the national Republican party vote and let the Democrat ________________________ , from Virginia, get elected President of the US.
  3. Virginia’s prohibition began in ____________, three years before national prohibition began.
  4. The immediate trigger for WWI was the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of _____________________ and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo in 1914.
  5. American troops entered the trenches on the Western Front in France in ____________(year); and, after a series of successful Allied offensives, Germany surrendered on Armistice Day, the 11 thof November 1918.
  6. President Wilson represented the US at the conference which resulted in the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Although the US did NOT become a member, this Treaty established the _______________________ of Nations
  • the forerunner of our United Nations today.
  1. Virginia’s most outspoken suffragette was ________________ __________________ who founded the Suffrage League of Virginia (later called the “VA League of Women Voters”.)

Part B: 1920-

  1. The __________________________ _______________ runs from Mt. Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mt. in Georgia – 1/4 of the it lies in Virginia.
  2. The brother of former Governor and US Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Winchester was a famous explorer and was the 1 stman to fly over the _______________________.
  1. In 1929, Richard Byrd and 3 companions were the 1 stto fly over the ______________________.
  2. The 1920s was an exciting time of change and experimentation with new life styles in America. These times were called the “___________________ twenties”.
  3. One of the favorite things for people to do in the 1930s was to go to the _______________ ___________________. And, the most famous of these was “Gone with the Wind”.
  4. The classic decorative and architectural style of the period from 1925 to 1940 was called “Art _____________” after its first display at a festival in Paris, France.
  5. Alcohol ___________________ in America had the unintended effect of wide-spread disrespect for the law in the 1920s and 1930s.
  6. Herbert Hoover, a Republican, was President of the US at the start of the “Great ___________________________”. His retreat for fishing at Camp Rapidan in Virginia was called the “Brown House”.
  7. In the US, Wall Street “crashed” in October of ______________. This began the 10-year economic slump that adversely affected all of the Western industrialized countries.
  8. President ___________________ was elected in 1932 with a platform of economic reform he called the “New Deal” for Americans.
  9. The center-piece of the “New Deal” was called the National Recovery Act of 1933 (NRA). It was later declared unconstitutional by the US ____________ ___________.
  10. Between 1933 and 1942, ten Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps were established on or near the Shenandoah National Park in _________________. The CCC employed young men in “make- work” tasks such as the building of Camp Roosevelt at Big Meadows, VA.
  11. In Virginia, African-Americans employed by the WPA built a beautiful Botanical Garden out of a swamp near ______________, Virginia.
  12. US Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, co-sponsored the Banking Act of 1933 which protected bank ____________________ savings and kept the nation’s banks from failing.
  1. German prisoners of war were brought to Virginia and put to work on ____________ throughout the State (e.g., at the remount facility in Front Royal, VA.)
  2. The shipyard at Portsmouth, VA became one of the ___________in the world, producing many “Liberty Ships” and aircraft carriers during WWII.
  3. Several training camps were built in Virginia during WWII. Once of these, Camp Pickett, was named after Virginia’s famous Civil War general; and, it served as the Army’s ____________ Replacement Training Center.
  4. At Alexandria, Virginia, workers made __________________ at its factory which now serves as an arts and crafts Center.
  5. B-17 Bomber pilots were trained at ________________ Field, VA; and later, served with bomber squadrons in England flying missions over Europe/Germany.
  6. American troops saw combat in North Africa where they served under the command of General George S. _____________ who came from a famous family of soldiers in Virginia.
  7. In North Africa and Italy, physicians and nurses from the Univ. Of Virginia organized and operated a large field __________________ near the battle fronts.
  8. In 1945, the ________________ captured Berlin and the Germans surrendered to the Allies on May 8 , 1945.th
  9. For the Americans, the most important naval battle of the war in the Pacific was at/near _______________________________ island.
  10. The Mariana Islands Campaign was fought on 3 islands: Rota, Tinian, and ___________. Later, Tinian became a major air base from which B-29 bombers flew atomic bombs to Japan.
  11. General MacArthur said he would “return” to the __________________ when he left there just before the Japanese took over there.
  12. On ______________ ______________ island the Marines raised an American flag and the picture of it became the basis for the Marine memorial sculpture depicting that activity in Arlington, VA.
  1. Corporal Desmond T. Doss of Lynchburg, VA received the Medal of Honor from President Truman for his valiant service as a _______________ in Okinawa, Japan.
  2. President Truman ordered the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with ___________ bombs called “fat man” and “big boy”.
  3. General MacArthur accepted Japan’s formal surrender on the USS _________________________ anchored in Tokyo bay.
  4. Edward R. _______________________, US Secretary of State and US’ UN Representative from Virginia, signed the UN Charter for the United States at SF, CA in June of 1945 as the US became a “charter member” and took a seat on its Security Council.
    1. George C. Marshall, of Virginia, received the ________________________honoring his plan for the economic recovery of countries affected by WWII in Europe.