Vocabulary
a person or business that uses resources to make goods or services.
What is a producer?
By 1900, ______ were hauling millions of tons of coal out of West Virginia annually
The two families of the Hatfield and McCoy feud were from what two U.S. states?
What is Kentucky and West Virginia?
Due to industrial growth in West Virginia, many ____________ were created which lead to whole communities for workers, often including homes, a school, a church, and a post office, as well as a company store.
What are company towns?
What year did West Virginia become a state?
What is 1863?
A group of businesses that provide the same types of goods or services
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What is industry?
West Virginia's original superhighway.
What is the Ohio River?
The patriarch of the Hatfield family.
What is Devil Anse Hatfield?
The railroad strike of 1877 began in West Virginia when railroad workers tried to stop trains from running on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in _______
What is Martinsburg?
This West Virginia native is the NBA (National Basketball Association) logo.
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Who is Jerry West?
Changing from small-scale production to large-scale manufacturing and production
What is industrialization?
This new transportation invention from the 1800's greatly changed industries in West Virginia.
What is the railroad system?
Johnse Hatfield cheated on Roseanna McCoy with...
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What is her cousin Nancy McCoy?
In the second half of the 19th century, millions of immigrants, most from eastern and southern ______, were moving to the United States.
West Virginia has ______ number of border states.
What is five?
the development of an area to gain more attributes of a city, including a higher population
What is urbanization?
This railroad line caused an increase in the establishment of coalfields which led to increased production, of coal in the northern region of West Virginia.
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What is the B & O Railroad?
Randolph McCoy accused Floyd Hatfield McCoy of stealing what?
What is a pig?
Under the West Virginia Constitution of 1862, elections for the West Virginia legislature would be held ________.
What is annually?
The first land battle of the American Civil War was fought at what West Virginia town?
What is Philippi?
gave all West Virginia men the right to vote, unless disqualified due to age, conviction of a felony, or mental condition. When the amendment was submitted to West Virginia voters, voters supported the Flick Amendment in a vote of 23,546 to 6,323.
What is the Flick Amendment?
This railroad route connected the New River and Kanawha coalfields to towns such as the newly founded Huntington, West Virginia and Richmond, Virginia.
What is the Chesapeake and Ohio?
What happened to the three McCoy's who killed Ellison Hatfield?
What is executed by firing squad by the Hatfields?
Under the 1872 West Virginia constitution, the term of governors was extended to _______ years.
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What is four?
The Monongahela National Forest covers nearly a million acres of land and spans across ______ counties.
What is 10?