<p>Read “Coal Industry” from West Virginia Encyclopedia,</p><p>Answer the following:</p><p>1. When was coal exploited as a commercial fuel?</p><p>2. The erection of what was a stimulus to coal mining?</p><p>3. What connected the coal fields with Richmond and the new city of Huntington?</p><p>4. Who is regarded as the “Father of the West Virginia Coal Industry”?</p><p>5. What U.S. Senator brought political power and deep financial resources to the new Fairmont Coal Company?</p><p>6. What Fairmont lawyer and governor of West Virginia (1890–93), also joined the company?</p><p>7. What Maryland company controlled by Clarence Watson, remains today a major producer of West Virginia coal?</p><p>8. Along with the coal mines that sprang up along the railroad lines what were, built by the operators to provide the necessary services for a rapidly expanding labor force?</p><p>9. In some southern counties, the foreign-born and what other populations combined to outnumber native-born whites?</p><p>10. Who acted as a bargaining agent for the miners?</p><p>11. The Mine War of 1920 included what four conflicts?</p><p>12. The passage of what act granted workers the right to organize unions?</p><p>13. Labor-saving machinery was known as what?</p><p>14. By the end of the 20th century, ever larger earth-moving machines decapitated entire mountains in the controversial practice known as what?</p><p>15. In 1997, West Virginia reached a peak coal production of more than how many tons?</p>