West Virginia

The civil war had to do with the Confederacy (south) and the Union (north). The civil war was mostly about slavery. They fought for the freedom of slavery or to keep slavery. I will also talk some battle strategies and their goals. The Union went into war because there goal was to free slaves. The Union had some advantages to fight the Confederacy. They had more men than the Confederacy did and also had some weapons. With the more men they could cover more ground. The Union liked to get…

a style of fighting evolved from the Teutonic’s and Anglo-Saxons tactics. The Union had a higher style to attack offensively because in order to ensure the Unions victory, they had to conquer the Confederacy consisting of states such as Alabama, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi etc. Not only…

Values/ pg.12: The standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly. Wetbacks are people who enter the United States illegally; this is because the people who come here have their values changed. People in other countries usually leave home to find jobs because the jobs in their own country are gone or disappearing. The money they make from the job they hope to get in the United States would be used to help out their families back home. These…

While America may have fought many wars before the Civil War, the Civil War was unique in that the two opposing sides of the war were parts of America in disagreement. The North, and The South. Against tremendous odds and opposition, the North won this Civil War and gave us the union we have today. But how did they accomplish this tremendous feat? The short answer, General Ulysses S Grant's competence as a military leader, the advantage of greater man and industrial power, and the leadership of…

The reasons that the North won the Civil War was because blockade helped the North out. The Union had more men with which to fight and couldn’t afford to lose any men. This meant that not only was confederacy losing men to them being killed but, they also lost men to the prisons in two ways. The 1st one was that men become POWS (Prisoner Of War) and were not exchanged, so as to be likely to return to the battle line. The second one, was as prison guards. Again, with the Unions advantages in…

most for law school which I plan to do after receiving my undergraduate degree from West Virginia University. I am currently on track with my major, and over the next four years, I plan to take all necessary classes needed for my major and to help better myself for law school. Over the next decade, many things can happen, but I plan to become a lawyer and start my life in a different state far away from West Virginia. Choosing economics came pretty easy to me because I have always been…

In West Virginia no “extensive mining took place until the mid-1800s, although coal was known to be throughout much of the state.” At that time coal usage in West Virginia was mainly for heating living quarters or for retail markets such as a blacksmiths. The inhabitants of Wheeling, West Virginia used coal to heat their homes in 1810, and the “first steamboat to use coal on the Ohio River. In the beginning, local inhabitants would surface mined the coal, using picks and shovels to dig the coal…

The United States has always been a nation that has been segregated. The Nation was founded on segregation and has long remained a part of its history. Especially during the Antebellum Period, the United States were not as united as one would think. Sure, each of the states that existed in that period were united as one whole country. However, each state instead, based on its location, was more segregated than ever. The states became victims of sectionalism which was how the division…

Emily: Native Americans have always had strong relationships to land and many of these relationships have been shown throughout history. In 1794, Timothy Pickering wrote to United States secretory of war Henry Knox after months of trying to negotiate with the Native people, he wrote he had finally found a way to win control of the Ohio country. “Pickering secured a permanent peace with the Six Nations Iroquois and, equally important, he had received a cession of their claims to the Ohio Valley.…

The battle was the outcome of the Union army pursuing the South to Virginia, but led to a Confederate victory. After the battle, Grant’s defeated troops were hungry and tired. They used to the railroad system to quickly replenish their supplies, so that they could continue on. As the Northern armies proceeded towards the…