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Pages 78-85
1. What is the name of an area just beyond or at the edge of a settled area? Frontier
2. What is the term for government by the people? Democracy
3. Who was one of the first known people to take an active interest in settling the new land?
4. Wha are some words that settlers adopted from the Native Americans? Moccasin, skunk, raccoon.
5. What is a speculator? Someone who buys something such as land at a low price and sells it at a higher price.
6. How did Virginia make sure all of the settlers did not leave Eastern Virginia and move west? Land policies that required settlers to come from the middle colonies.
7. Name three denominations that moved west of the mountains. Baptist, Methodist, Quaker, Minnonite Moravian, Church of the Brethren (Dunkard), Episcopal, Presbyterian, Catholic, Lutheran, German Reformed, Seventh-Day Baptist.
8. Who is credited with being the firt permanent English settler to present day West Virginia? Morgan Morgan
9. Morgan Morgan, Jacob Hite and Dr. John Briscoe established the first church west of the mountains called? Christ Episcopal Church at Bunker Hill.
10. Which of Morgan Morgan's children established the town that became Morgantown? Zackquill Morgan
11. What is discrimination? any action that denies people their rights because of prejudice.
12. What was an indentured servant? Someone who worked for a period of years to pay for their passage to the new world.
13. How long did an indentured servant have (ususally) to work to gain their freedom? 7 years.
14. What was slavery? Owning people as property.
1. What Lt. Governor from Virgina led an exploration west of the mountains and awarded the men with him with golden horseshoes? Ans. Alexander Spotswood.
2. Who was the first European to crest the Blue Ridge Mountians and enter what is present day West Virginia? Ans. John Lederer
3. What two countries both claimed the Ohio Valled? Ans. Great Britain and France
4. What was the importance of finding flowing water on the western side of the mountains? Ans. One could claim all of the land drained by the stream.
5. Who was the first French explorer to travel down the Ohio from Canada and claim land in the Ohio Valley for France? Ans. Robert Cavalier de la Salle
6. What did Celoron de Blainville bury to claim the land in the Ohio Valley for France? Ans. Lead plates
7. Where was one of the lead plates found? Ans. Point Pleasant
8. Who was the first European to see the Great Kanawaha River? Ans. Grabriel Arthur
9. How did the mountains hamper the early explorers? Ans. There were no roads and it made travel difficult.
10. Why did more than one county want to claim land in present day West Virgina?
Ans. It would make the counrty more powerful to control a large area to trade in.
West Virginia History
Chapter 4 Section 1 pages 60-64
Christopher Newport- He was sent by the London company to start a settlement on Roanoke Island in what is now North Carolina.
After establishing a settlement on the James River (Jamestown 1607) He explored farther west so settlers could know what lay beyond their settlement and find out more about the American Indians.
Abraham Wood-Commander of an English fort -- Fort Henry, and a he had a fur trading business on the Appomattox River. He explored with Edward Bland and published a pamphlet on their explorations.
John Lederer- was a German physician and explored for England and was the first recorded European to reach the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains in what is now West Virginia. Lederer was criticized because he recorded hearsay and things that scholars did not believe he would see.
Do You Remember Page 64
1. What was Abraham Wood’s occupation? Fur trader and commander of Ft. Henry
2. Why was the Wood-Bland expedition important? Journal was published about their travels.
3. Why do some consider John Lederer’s accounts of his expeditions unreliable? People thought he wrote about imaginary things and hearsay
West Virginia History
Chapter 3 Pages 50-54
1. What indicates that Paleo as well as Archaic Indians lived at least for a time in WV? both groups left behind mounds
2. The earliest cultures about which there is a lot of information are the Hopewell and the Adena.
3. Scientist who study the origins, delvelopment, customs, and beliefs of humans are called anthropologist.
4. Why did anthropoplogists assign the names to the HOpewell and Adena people? Because we don't know what they called themsleves.
5. Both the Adena and Hopewell peoples were hunters and gathers.
6. There is some evidence that the Adena grew what crop? Sunflowers
There is some evidence that the Hopewell grew what crop? Corn
7. Where is the largest Hopewell Mound? Indian Mound cemetery in Hampshire County
8. What is the largest mound in WV? Grave Cree in Marshall County
9. What is the second largest mound in WV? Criel Mound in Kanawha County
10. What was different about how the two mounds were excavated and studied? The Grave Creek Mounds was excavated by amatures and the Criel Mound was excavated by professionals using scientific methods of gathering data.
11. What came from the Grave Creek Mound that was discovered to be a hoax? The Grave Creek Inscribed Stone.
12. What other archaeologial structures other than mounds are found in WV? Mt. Carbon in Fayette County and Ben's Run in Tyler County Both are the remains of long walls.
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