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Chapter 9 Pages 159-165
1. How did the first hunters, trappers, and explorers come into West Virginia? Answer: over old Indian or animal trails
2. Why did settlers and farmers need a better way to move their belongings than the early hunters and trappers? Answer: Farmers and settlers had more items
3. How many years did it take Virginians to settle as far as the Appalachian Mountains? From 1607 to 1750
4. What was the first public road in West Virginia? Answer:From Winchester Va to the home of Morgan Morgan
5. How did road improvements between 1790-1840 help western Virginia? Answer: Mate it easier to settle
6. Describe the Conestoga wagon. Answer: 16 Feet long and 4 feet wide it was higher at the front and back kind of like a boat.
7 . What road ran from Cumberland, MD to Wheeling, WV? Answer: National Road
8. What was the purpose of a turnpike? Answer: To pay a fee to use the road, those fees pay for building and maintaining the road
9. The National Road follows US Route 4o? Answer: Most used road in American History
10. What road was completed from Winchester to Parkersburg in 1838? Answer: Northwestern Turnpike
11. What route is the road today? Answer: US Rt. 50
12. Who was Claudius Crozet? Answer: State engineer who designed roads
13. What were the charges for staying at an inn or tavern? Answer: Lodging 121/2 Cents
14. What did Europeans think of the inn conditions in America? Answer: They did not like that all the people stayed together on equal status. They said it was carrying democracy too far
15. Describe a stagecoach. Answer: Egg-shapped and rested on leather straps that provided a more comfortable ride.
16. Why were stagecoaches better than a Conestoga wagon? Answer: They were more comfortable not as rough a ride.
Bonus: His Hat
Chapter 9 Pages 159-165
1. How did the first hunters, trappers, and explorers come into West Virginia? Answer: over old Indian or animal trails
2. Why did settlers and farmers need a better way to move their belongings than the early hunters and trappers? Answer: Farmers and settlers had more items
3. How many years did it take Virginians to settle as far as the Appalachian Mountains? From 1607 to 1750
4. What was the first public road in West Virginia? Answer:From Winchester Va to the home of Morgan Morgan
5. How did road improvements between 1790-1840 help western Virginia? Answer: Mate it easier to settle
6. Describe the Conestoga wagon. Answer: 16 Feet long and 4 feet wide it was higher at the front and back kind of like a boat.
7 . What road ran from Cumberland, MD to Wheeling, WV? Answer: National Road
8. What was the purpose of a turnpike? Answer: To pay a fee to use the road, those fees pay for building and maintaining the road
9. The National Road follows US Route 4o? Answer: Most used road in American History
10. What road was completed from Winchester to Parkersburg in 1838? Answer: Northwestern Turnpike
11. What route is the road today? Answer: US Rt. 50
12. Who was Claudius Crozet? Answer: State engineer who designed roads
13. What were the charges for staying at an inn or tavern? Answer: Lodging 121/2 Cents
14. What did Europeans think of the inn conditions in America? Answer: They did not like that all the people stayed together on equal status. They said it was carrying democracy too far
15. Describe a stagecoach. Answer: Egg-shapped and rested on leather straps that provided a more comfortable ride.
16. Why were stagecoaches better than a Conestoga wagon? Answer: They were more comfortable not as rough a ride.
Bonus: His Hat
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Chapter 8 Pages 142-147
Study Guide
Do You Remember? Question page 147
1. What is a constitution? Answer: A written plan of government
2. Name three powers of the national government under the Articles of Confederation.
Answer: First: Organize western land
Second: established a specific way for states to enter the union.
Third: prohibited slavery north of the Ohio River
3. What was the original purpose of the Constitutional Convention? Answer: To Revise the Articles of Confederation.
4. Why did slavery become a consideration during the Constitutional Convention? Answer: How to count slaves for the purpose of representation in congress.
Vocabulary
1-Articles of Confederation- the country’s first constitution
2- Ambassador- a person sent by one country as a permanent representative to another country.
3-Tariffs- taxes on imports.
4-Virginia Plan- also called the Large state plan wanted a 2 house national legislature.
5-New Jersey Plan- also called the Small state plan wanted a 1 house national legislature.
6-Great Compromise- A compromise of both the Va and NJ plans.
7-3/5 Compromise- a compromise on how to count slaves for the purpose of representation
8-Ratified- officially approved.
Study Guide
Do You Remember? Question page 147
1. What is a constitution? Answer: A written plan of government
2. Name three powers of the national government under the Articles of Confederation.
Answer: First: Organize western land
Second: established a specific way for states to enter the union.
Third: prohibited slavery north of the Ohio River
3. What was the original purpose of the Constitutional Convention? Answer: To Revise the Articles of Confederation.
4. Why did slavery become a consideration during the Constitutional Convention? Answer: How to count slaves for the purpose of representation in congress.
Vocabulary
1-Articles of Confederation- the country’s first constitution
2- Ambassador- a person sent by one country as a permanent representative to another country.
3-Tariffs- taxes on imports.
4-Virginia Plan- also called the Large state plan wanted a 2 house national legislature.
5-New Jersey Plan- also called the Small state plan wanted a 1 house national legislature.
6-Great Compromise- A compromise of both the Va and NJ plans.
7-3/5 Compromise- a compromise on how to count slaves for the purpose of representation
8-Ratified- officially approved.
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West Virginia History
Chapter 7 Study Guide
Pages 120-122
1. Why did the British want the colonist to help pay for the French and Indian war?
Answer: The war was very costly
2. Why did the colonist believe they didn’t owe the British anything for the cost of the French and Indian war? Answer: They felt they had fought more than the British
3. How did the British propose to pay for the French and Indian war? Answer: Tax
4. What was the Stamp Act? Answer: A tax on all printed material
5. Who said “Taxation without representation is tyranny?” Answer: Patrick Henry
6. Of what was the colonist accusing the British? Answer: Not giving the colonist a voice in the law making process.
7. How did the colonist show displeasure at how they were treated by the British? Answer: They tarred and feathered the tax collectors and hanged them in effigy
8. How did the colonist respond to a tax on tea? Answer: They threw the tea overboard, (Boston Tea Party):
9. What action did the British take in response to the Boston Tea Party? Answer: Closed the Port of Boston
10. What did the House of Burgesses do that angered Lord Dunmore? Answer: They voted to observe a day of fasting
11. Who was Maj. John Connolly? Governor Dunmore’s representative at Fort Pitt.
12. Why was Chief Logan driven to lead attacks on frontier settlements? Answer: His family was killed.
13. Who led an assault on the Shawnee from Fort Fincastle? Answer: Maj. Angus MacDonald
14. Where was Fort Fincastle? Answer: Wheeling
15. Where were the Shawnee defeated in Ohio? Answer the Muskingum River
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Quiz tomorrow Thursday November 15th
Chapter 7 Pages 114-120
1. What was the Proclamation of 1763? It forbade the settlement west of the Alleghenies.
2. Who issued it and why? King George III issued the Proclamation and he did it as a way to protect the settlers from attacks from Native Americans.
3. In what geographic region did the Pringle Brothers live? Allegheny Plateau
** The Pringle Brothers (no relation to the chips) went AWOL from the army stationed at Pittsburgh and traveled South. They used a hollow Scyamore Tree located near the Buckhannon River in present day Upshur County for a home.
4. How did the Proclamation of 1763 divide the Indian Territory? In to Northern and Southern regions.
5. Who was in charge of each section? North=William Johnson
South= John Stuart
6. What were the provisions of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix? It gave the British all Iroquois land South of the Ohio River.
7. What were the provisions fo the Treaty of Hard Labor? The Cherokee gave up their land between the Kentucky River and the Kanawaha River.
8. What first brought George Washington to WV? He was a land surveyor for Lord Fairfax.
9. How much land did George Washington claim? over 55,000 acres.
10. What was the name of the proposed 14th colony? Vandalia
11. Where was the capital to be? Point Pleasant
12. What happended to the plans for the colony? The American Revolution put a stop the the plans.
Good Bonus question might be: Name a county that George Washington Claimed land in.
Chapter 7 Pages 114-120
1. What was the Proclamation of 1763? It forbade the settlement west of the Alleghenies.
2. Who issued it and why? King George III issued the Proclamation and he did it as a way to protect the settlers from attacks from Native Americans.
3. In what geographic region did the Pringle Brothers live? Allegheny Plateau
** The Pringle Brothers (no relation to the chips) went AWOL from the army stationed at Pittsburgh and traveled South. They used a hollow Scyamore Tree located near the Buckhannon River in present day Upshur County for a home.
4. How did the Proclamation of 1763 divide the Indian Territory? In to Northern and Southern regions.
5. Who was in charge of each section? North=William Johnson
South= John Stuart
6. What were the provisions of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix? It gave the British all Iroquois land South of the Ohio River.
7. What were the provisions fo the Treaty of Hard Labor? The Cherokee gave up their land between the Kentucky River and the Kanawaha River.
8. What first brought George Washington to WV? He was a land surveyor for Lord Fairfax.
9. How much land did George Washington claim? over 55,000 acres.
10. What was the name of the proposed 14th colony? Vandalia
11. Where was the capital to be? Point Pleasant
12. What happended to the plans for the colony? The American Revolution put a stop the the plans.
Good Bonus question might be: Name a county that George Washington Claimed land in.
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First Period 8th Grade
Friday November 9th Open Book quiz on pages 105-111
Friday November 9th Open Book quiz on pages 105-111
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