Chapter 10

What is a fee for instruction?

Who is someone who wants to end slavery?

Who founded Tuskegee Institute, was an accomplished scholar from Hampton Institute and author?

What group of people were excluded from early improvements in education?

What was completed in 1852 in Wheeling and improved travel from the Atlantic to western VA?

From where did the money come to build better transportation systems?

What did Henry Ruffner believe had been harmed most by slavery?

What were schools called where parents paid a fee for a schoolmaster to come and teach their children?

Which group of people often hired tutors to teach their children?

The original "National Road" originally led from which place to which other place?

The first free school in western Virginia was established in 1829 at this place:

What term means "the right to vote?"

What opened in Wheeling in 1853

What did Virginia's General Assembly create to provide better education for children?

What was an early model boat used only to carry people downstream?

What is a road on which fees are charged?

The first college in western Virginia was:

Which of the following is a problem often faced by water travelers?

What group of people made up most of the early teaching profession?

Which statement explains the influence of the steamboat "Washington?"

About how long was the early school term?

These places served as rest stops for travelers during the frontier days

What was founded in 1871 to honor George William Summers?

Who was the first person to demonstrate a steam-powered boat?

The first public road in western Virginia was from Winchester, Virginia to THIS man's cabin:

Eastern and western Virginia were further divided by which of the following factors?

What was the name of Peter Cooper's steam engine train?

What was the most important reason settlers on the frontier needed to know how to write?

What is true about early schoolhouses?

What is a waterway that joins one river or body of water to another?