Early Years
Getting Started
Tuskegee
Atlanta & Beyond
Wildcard
100
How Washington got his last name.
He chose it himself while in school.
100
How are Washington and the native American boy treated differently while traveling together?
The boy is allowed in certain establishments where Washington is not permitted.
100
The state in which the Tuskegee Institute is located.
What is Alabama?
100
The way Washington felt about taking a vacation.
What is gulity?
100
Washington does this to earn the money for his tuition at Hampton Normal School.
What is working as a janitor?
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
Where his family moves shortly after getting their freedom.
Where is Malden, West Virginia?
200
What work does Washington do with the Native American students at Hampton?
He oversees the education of 75 Native American students.
200
What does Washinton buy to help his students learn more about working with their hands?
An old, run-down plantation.
200
President whom Washington invited to tour the Tuskegee Institute.
Who is President William McKinley?
200
The genre into which Up from Slavery falls.
What is memoir/autobiography?
300
Where Booker works while living with his step-father.
What are the salt furnaces?
300
When teaching back home in Malden, Booker adds this to his curriculum for his day classes.
What is proper hygiene?
300
Other than building on the campus, the other reason why Washington and his students made bricks.
What is to sell to the community?
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!:
University from which Booker earns an honorary degree.
What is Harvard?
300
How, according to Washington, he feels before every speech.
What is nervous?
400
What does Mrs. Ruffner teach Booker?
The importance of honesty, precision, and honor.
400
What did Booker notice about the blacks he met in Washington DC?
They were often broke by the end of the month, despite making good money.
They came to desire things but didn't desire to work for them.
400
Why Washington wanted to students to build the buildings at Tuskeegee.
What is to show them that work is not shameful and that using innovated methods can make work more interesting and enjoyable?
400
The expo at which Washington gave his most famous speech.
What is the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition?
400
The man who had the most influence on Washington's education and, ultimately, life?
Who is General Armstrong?
500
Describe how Washington manages to go to Hampton Normal without any money or means.
Where did he get the funds to travel there?
What does he do when he runs out of traveling money?
- Small donations from neighbors.
- He walks
500
According to Washington, it would have been better if the federal government had provided this to the freed slaves.
What is an education?
500
What observations does Booker make about the poor people of Tuskegee when he first comes to the town?
They are very poor, but still try to be hospitable.
They buy expensive things like organs and sewing machines that no one in the house can use.
500
During this famous speech, Washington focuses most on how blacks and whites need to...
Work Together
500
At the end of the book, the feeling that Washington expresses about balcks being fully accepted into American society.
What is optimism?