Harpers Ferry Jeopardy

Harpers Ferry Jeopardy

Virginius Island Industry Armory Archeology 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500

Row 1, Col 1 What is an arsenal? Weapons are made in an armory. Name the building in which weapons are stored.

1,2 What is the Shenandoah River? Virginius Island is located along what river.

1,3 What is the U.S. Armory? What site in Harpers Ferry National Historical Park was excavated by the archeology department from 2005 to 2007?

1,4 What is a canal system? Thistransportation system was also important in providing waterpower to the factories.

2,1 What is mass-production (made by machines)? In the early years of the armory, weapons were made by hand. In the years 1841 to 1845 the method of production changed to this.

2,2 What is a dam? This type of structure was built to divert the river’s water into the canal system.

2,3 What are features? Which of the following are things found during excavations that are not portable: Artifacts Soil Features

2,4 What are turbines? Which of the following was an improvement over the conventional water wheels: Conveyor belts Turbines Foot pedal

3,1 What is 150 hours? Once weapons could be made by machinery it took only 30 hours for a rifle to be produced. Which of the following is the amount of hours it took to produce a rifle by hand: 10 hours 60 hours 150 hours

3,2 What are blacksmith shop, iron foundry, granary, machine shop, cotton mill, flour mill, and sawmill? Name two industries that were present on Virginius Island in the nineteenth century.

3,3 What are pits, wells, foundation walls, roads, and walkways? Name two examples of archeological features.

3,4 What are droughts, freezing, and flooding? What three weather conditions could affect the industries in Harpers Ferry? (Hint: Remember that the industries were powered by river water.)

4,1 What are the ages of 12 to 14? At this age young boys began their apprenticeships at the U.S. Armory.

4,2 What is 1936? The highest flood in Harpers Ferry’s recorded history occurred in this year. After the flood, industry did not return to Virginius Island.

4,3 What is stratigraphy? This is the study of strata or soil layers.

4,4 What is the Burton bullet? Which of these deadly inventions was developed in Harpers Ferry: The Burton Bullet The John Brown Pike The Sharps Rifle

5,1 What is a blanchard lathe? Of the following, this type of machine was used to mass produce gun stocks: (Hint: Today this type of machine makes things like baseball bats) A blanchard lathe A loom A turbine

5,2 What is the Shenandoah Pulp Company Mill? Built in 1880 which of the following factories is now one of the most prominent ruins on Virginius Island: Hall’s Rifle Works Sawmill Shenandoah Pulp Company Mill

5,3 What is kept together? Artifacts collected from each strata are: Kept together Kept separate Tossed aside

5,4 What is the Harpers Ferry Hydro Plant? The last industry in Harpers Ferry shut its doors in 1991. It was which of the following: The Harpers Ferry Hydro Plant The Shenandoah Pulp Company The Harpers Ferry Bottling Works

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