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The primary issue for the Constitutional convention in Virginia was discontent over the size of what?
Counties
Roads on which tolls were charged became known as as what?
Turnpikes
What is another term for a large estate or large farm?
Plantation
What is suffrage?
Right to vote
Nat Turner was convinced that God wanted him to end what in America?
Slavery
Besides teaching the “3 ‘R’s”, schools reinforced ________ and community values.
Religious
Eastern Virginians wanted property ownership to be a requirement for what?
Voting
Western Virginians wanted the direct _________ of county officials.
Election
Name one of the two former US Presidents that represented eastern Virginia in the Constitutional convention?
James Madison
James Monroe
What town was named for Robert Harper?
Harpers Ferry
Robert Fulton and what man share the honor of adapting the steam engine to water trasportation?
James Rumsey
It took Virginians from 1607 to almost 1750 to settle as far west as the ____________ mountains.
Appalachian
The first public road in present-day West Virginia is where?
Eastern Panhandle
Who was the chief justice of the US Supreme Court that represented the eastern part of Virginia at the Constitutional convention?
John Marshall
Angry white men killed more than 100 slaves because of the uprising of whom?
Nat Turner
What did Henry Ruffner believe had been harmed the most by slavery?
Economic Development
James Rumsey was born in 1743 and became a self taught ___________ and builder.
Blacksmith
Which western Virginia county voted 100% to reject the Virginia constitution of 1830?
Brooke
In his “Address to the people of West Virginia”, Henry ___________ took a firm stand against slavery.
Ruffner
At the 1850 Constitutional convention, the delegates decided to no longer count __________ when determining the population for legislative representation.
Slaves
What railroad was chartered in the year 1827?
Baltimore and Ohio
What was another name for the Midland Trail?
James River and Kanawha Turnpike
The B&O and Northwestern were the only what operating in present-day West Virginia before the Civil War?
Railroads
What is a waterway that joins one river or body of water to another?
Canal
Who was the great-grand uncle of President Theodore Roosevelt
Nicholas J. Roosevelt