West Virginia

The Union navy quickly mobilized to set up a blockade of southern ports. The blockade largely prevented the south from selling or receiving goods, and it seriously damages the southern economy. The union was mad about being broken and the confederates were mad because Abraham Lincoln was president and he wanted to get rid of slavery. The strategies of the north and the south were that the union strategy took out the South's supplies and demand, the South's strategy was the south thought that…

The civil war was an ugly fight between the North and the South. The South wanted slavery and the North didn't, and this is why they didn't get along, so this is why the union and confederacy formed as groups for war. During the Civil war both North and south needed people for help to finish task and to help with things the white people couldn't do. The Northern and Southern armies had pretty different point of views for the Africans services. The South needed the Africans to fill in the…

The Union and Confederate fighting styles were similar in many ways, but in certain aspects, they were vastly different. Both sides valued honor and loyalty and frowned upon retreat. Both sides believed they were fighting for a just cause and that they would win the war easily. One difference between them was, the Confederacy had first-rate generals and the Union had more manpower. The Confederacy started more defensively, but as the war progressed they became more offensive. The Union was…

The battle between our own states was a raging and bloody war for both the north and the south. Throughout the war the officers were often treated like royalty compared to that of the men that, I feel, did most of the hard work. The enlisted men did not get the same quality of goods as the officers and were forced to make good with what they got. I could not imagine sleeping in half of a tent or somehow having to find a way to join two halves together as you can see in the pictures shown at Camp…

The North and the South: Civil War Era In the mid-1800s, turmoil broke between the North and the South states. The Southern Confederate states and the Northern Union states shared different beliefs. There were slave states in the South and free states in the North. These two territories shared many other differences, as well as a few minor similarities. The North and the South shared several variations between their social, economic, and political cultures. Alhough the North and the South…

We see pictures of poverty on the news from many different communities across the nation, but often, little of this news coverage is given to the people living in Appalachia. The ABC 20/20 episode entitled A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains shines a much needed light on the daily struggles people living in Central Appalachia face. Watching Children of the Mountains was a sobering experience for me. The most surprising thing in this video was the drug abuse and drug dealing. It was…

very fond of moving. At least, I sure I’m not. We were living in West Virginia and I was in 7th grade. We rented a house in West Virginia one year ago. Life was going as it was planned. Great friends, school, teacher, everything I liked. The first place I felt welcomed and I just did not want to move which I had known from the beginning. My dad had a job that required him to travel around, since his job was completed in West Virginia, he was required to move. At certain times, I was just crazy…

sympathizers. However, what hit the nail on the head for forcing Maryland to remain in the Union had to do with partially, Lincoln’s political agenda and partially his military agenda. Maryland was the home of the Naval Academy in Annapolis and the home of West Point Military Academy. The city of Baltimore had a key harbor for supplies and shipbuilding. Lincoln would…

I would like to share to Abraham Lincoln about pancakes because they are the best things to ever eat during morning breakfasts. Why I pick Abraham Lincoln as my person? Well he has shown a lot a democracy to the people in the northern part of the United States, for there he was a great leader of all of the people in that time era. Furthermore, I want to show Abraham this type of food because I like to eat pancakes during the morning wherever we go to eat, so showing this type of food to him…

The theme of "O Captain! My Captain!" is that sacrifices have to be made in order to be successful and gain greatness. Elegy: somber toned poem, lament for the dead This poem is an Elegy in honor of Abraham Lincoln. Walt Whitman wrote this poem a little after Lincoln's assassination. This poem is a big metaphor because it is about a captain -Abraham Lincoln- and his crew -Lincoln's followers- obtaining their sought out prize-winning the civil war- but after getting what they want the captain…