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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