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The main point of this article is that in western Virginia a salt lick in the nineteenth century was one of the most significant premodern manufacture operation. The Great Kanawha was located along the Ohio River. There was a large scale of economic development of salt manufactures in rural and urban areas in the Ohio River basin. Therefore, the pork packaging industry in Cincinnati, Louisville, and the river towns would not have prosper without the salt extracted from Kanawha Saline’s.…

Patrick Henry’s “Speech to the Virginia Convention” main purpose is to convince the delegates to secede from Britain. President Whitmore’s speech in Independence Day rallies people together to fight the aliens. They both want their audiences to protect their liberties. Patrick Henry’s speech and Independence Day both fight for liberty because without it society is nothing. Patrick Henry believes in the right to liberty above his own life. In his speech to the “Virginia Convention,” he argues…

States located between Maryland and Virginia lying inland from the Atlantic Ocean. It has more than 150 major rivers and streams that are a part of the Chesapeake watershed covering parts of six states including: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland Virginia and West Virginia. Nearly 17 million people living in areas that feed into the Chesapeake Bay watershed and affect the Bay water quality. The Bay plays a very important role in Maryland and Virginia economy, providing economic…

The Army of the Potomac was one of the main Union land forces. In July of 1861 the Union suffered a great loss at the battle of Bull Run. This resulted in General George B. McClellan being appointed as leader of the Union forces in and around Washington D.C. McClellan then created an army, this was known as the Army of the Potomac. This army would have many different commanders through its span of the Civil War. General George B. McClellan was the creator and commander of the Army of the…

against ministers after King George the third had overturned the law against a local person in Virginia. Henry went forward and defended the local person from Virginia, pointing out the greed and the interference of the royals in colonial matters. This is how he made a name for himself and how he became now well known by many for his orator skills. In the year 1765, Henry became a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. In the same year, the Stamp act was passed on by the British. Henry then…

Jamestown, Virginia was established in 1607 not long after the Puritans discovered Massachusetts Bay in 1630. They were two English colonies but went to the New World for different reasons but also similar ones. Virginia's purpose was trading and making money. Massachusetts Bay Colony on the other hand sought out for religion. Two colonies that was completely different with even more opposite purposes. There were two colonies established in the world with completely different goals in mind.…

The City of Alexandria is located in Northern Virginia, about seven miles south of downtown Washington D.C. Sitting on the west bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria encompasses a total area of 15.5 square miles, of which 97.15 percent is land and 2.75 percent is water. With a population of 150,575 residents (according to the 2014 census), Alexandria is the seventh largest city in Virginia. Interestingly, it is also the most populated town among the fourteen Alexandrias in the United States.…

toward more freedom for all. In many circumstances the different interests came into to conflict with one another. As white Patriots fought for their liberty, they found themselves on the opposite side of blacks fighting for their own freedom. In Virginia, as Nash noted, John Murray, earl of Dunmore, decided “to arm all my Negroes and receive all others that will come to me whom I shall declare free.” If black slave took up arms and aided in suppressing the Patriots cries for liberty, they would…

On an early August morning before the break of dawn no one would have suspected that Nat Turner would be leading a slave uprising. He entered his master’s home in Southampton, Virginia killing five of the family members from his plantation. This uprising would soon become the famous rebellion known as the Nat Turner Rebellion. This rebellion, which Tuner thought of as a sign from God would raise southerner’s fears and change attitudes towards slavery. Nat Turner was born into slavery in the…

Yes Virginia is an editorial from a writer of the New York Sun. It was written by a little girl named Virginia who is eight years old in 1897. In her letter she is explaining that her friends are telling her that there is no Santa claus so she asks the writer to tell her the truth. She also adds in her letter the reason she is writing to the sun. She states in her letter that "papa says". The writer then replies to her explaining his interpretation of a Santa claus. The newspaper can only print…