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Washington/Carver/Wilder/Sunday
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| founder of the Tuskegee Institute | Booker T. Washington |
| the town Booker's family traveled to after the Civil War | Malden, West Virginia |
| the school in Virginia where Booker attended | Hampton Institute |
| Where did Booker and his stepfather work? | salt mines |
| What was Booker's first book? | Noah Webster's Blue-Backed Speller |
| What did Booker NOT have when he went to school for the first time? | a last name |
| What did Booker get to eat on Sundays? | molasses |
| Who taught Booker how to use his Bible? | one of his teachers |
| Who did Booker think were the happiest people? | those that help others |
| The students of Tuskegee Institute learned better ways to ____________. | plant crops |
| The students of Tuskegee Institute learned to _______________. | make bricks |
| T/F - When Booker got to Tuskegee there was a school building for him to teach in. | False |
| men who made surprise attacks on others | raiders |
| the study of the soil, plants, and animals | agriculture |
| Who taught Southern farmers better ways to farm and loved working with plants? | George Washington Carver |
| Who owned George and took care of him as a son? | Mr. and Mrs. Moses Carver |
| What did George watch Mrs. Carver do with thread and needles? | crochet |
| to scratch a design on something | etch |
| Where was George Carver born? | Diamond Grove, Missouri |
| Where did George Carver first go to school? | Neosho, Missouri |
| George loved to go into the ______ to study plants. | woods |
| George Carver was called the _______ _______ of Diamond Grove. | plant doctor |
| How was God watching over George in Neosho? | He gave George a place to live |
| How did George repay the Watkins's kindness? | by working for them |
| Who wrote and asked George to come to Tuskegee? | Booker T. Washington |
| What was George the director of at Tuskegee Institute? | agriculture |
| How did George earn money to put himself through school? | doing laundry |
| George's favorite hobby was studying ______. | plants |
| What two plants did George Carver find hundreds of uses for? | peanuts and sweet potatoes |
| a wagon covered by canvas used by pioneers for traveling west | prairie schooner |
| the true story of a person's life written by that person himself | autobiography |
| the true story of a person's life written by another person | biography |
| author of "The Little House" books for children | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Laure Ingalls lived in a little house in the big woods of ________. | Wisconsin |
| Mary Ingalls had a high fever which slowly caused her to __ _______. | go blind |
| What was Laura's first doll made from? | a corncob |
| What did Laura's father build when the Ingalls family decided to move west? | a prairie schooner |
| When Laura was 15 years old, she began _______ _______. | teaching school |
| What did Laura promise she would be for Mary? | her eyes |
| Whom did Laura Ingalls marry? | Almanzo Wilder |
| Sometimes Laura's father shot a ______ for meat. | bear |
| How old did Laura live to be? | 90 years old |
| the famous evangelist who left baseball to win people to Christ | Billy Sunday |
| a home where orphans live | orphanage |
| Where was Billy Sunday born? | Ames, Iowa |
| How old was Billy when he left the orphanage? | fourteen |
| What kind of jobs did Billy do when he was young? | farmwork and janitor |
| What baseball team did Billy join? | White Stockings |
| How did Billy earn money to pay for high school? | janitor at a school |
| After playing baseball, where did Billy work? | YMCA |
| What did he do at the YMCA? | acted as a missionary to young men |
| a preacher of the Bible who preaches that salvation is through Jesus | evangelist |
| Billy's sermons were never _______. | quiet |
| What would Billy do when he preached? | run, leap and jump |
| During which war was Billy Sunday born? | Civil War |
| What was the name of the buildings that were made for Billy's meetings? | tabernacles |
| What covered the floor of the tabernacles? | sawdust |
| What expression is talking about people walking down to accept Christ? | hitting the sawdust trail |
| What did Billy organize so that mothers could attend his meetings? | a nursery |
| Billy knew that ______ was important at his meetings. | music |
| Who was Billy Sunday's song leader for 20 years? | Homer Rodeheaver |
| What was the one evil that Billy fought against? | liquor |
| an alcholic beverage | liquor |
| How many people did Billy Sunday preach to? | one hundred million |
| Billy Sunday did not have an easy ______ as a child. | life |
| Name 2 things that happened after Billy Sunday left a town. | church attendance increased and people drank liquor less. |
| Who was Billy Sunday's wife? | Helen Thompson |
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