West Virginia

Robert. E. Lee was a very important person of the Civil War. Robert E Lee had a very successful life; with war and with wits. Robert E Lee was born in Virginia, the fifth child of Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee. In 1829 he was graduated as the salutatorian of his class at West Point without having a single demerit in his four years there. Commissioned in the Corps of Engineers, he served under General Winfield Scott in the Mexican War, in which he distinguished himself in the Battles of Veracruz,…

The question of whether or not cannibalism occurred in the Jamestown settlement in the 1600’s had been debated by historians for generations. Recently, scholars have turned their attention towards a different question with regards to the cannibalism rumors; the more modern line of inquiry about Jamestown, exemplified in Rachel Herrman’s The “tragicall historie”: Cannibalism and Abundance in Colonial Jamestown, is focused on the reasoning behind why multiple accounts of the events were published,…

by William Berkeley, the governor of Virginia. Bacon’s rebellion was a power struggle between two stubborn, selfish leaders, Nathaniel Bacon and Governor Sir William Berkeley who fought over Indian policy. Bacon's followers resented the planting elite because of the control they had on the colony’s resources and government. To understand the rebellion, it is important to understand the role indentured servants played and the situation poor farmers in Virginia faced in the 1660s. In Southern…

Robert E. Lee was born January 19, 1807 in Stratford, Virginia. He passed away October 19, 1870 in Lexington, Virginia. His parents were Anne Hill Carter Lee and Henry Lee the 3rd. Lee also had a sister named Sydney. He was married to Mary Anna Custis Lee and they had 6 children, 3 boys and 3 girls. When Lee was 18 years old he went to West Point Military Academy where he excelled in all subjects. After graduating from West Point he met and married Mary Anna Custis and had 6 children. Although…

opportunities. And these purposes brought them to settle in new lands. The Southern Colonies consisted of Virginia, Maryland, Chesapeake, and Caribbean Islands where Europeans came for their purposes. The first land was Virginia where a first group of British merchants called themselves as the Virginia Company. This company was divided by two groups. The first settles’ group was the Virginia Company of…

largest estuary in the United States. It was formed about ten thousand years ago when a glacier melted and flooded the Susquehanna River valley. Its waters run throughout the District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West…

of Confederation in 1777. In 1787 congress meets to improve the Articles of Confederation because it is also failing. They decide on a Republic but two different types of states have two different ideas. The first plan created was the Virginia Plan. In the Virginia plan, the first house would be selected be an amount of representatives based on the population. This gave bigger states with bigger populations more power so the smaller states did not like this plan. The other plan was the New…

water where the salt water of the ocean mixes with the fresh water of rivers and streams. The Bay is 200 miles long and flows through the states of Virginia and Maryland. More than 150 rivers, creeks, and streams flow into the Bay, not only from Virginia and Maryland, but also from tributary, rivers located in Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. To simplify, estuaries are areas where freshwater streams or rivers merge with the ocean. This mixing of…

main ideas about each of the topic’s stated above. To start off this essay I will first talk about is the Mid-Atlantic, this part of the United States is consumed of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia, and West Virginia. This region is also known as “ the typically American “. Some of the settlers that came to the Mid-Atlantic were the dutch, swedes, English Catholics, and her quakers. This quote I found showed the types of people that first…

General Robert E. Lee was born in January 19, 1807 in Stratford hall Virginia and he died on October 12, 1870. He went to school at Alexandria academy. His fathers name was henry lee the third. His father was a tobacco planter. He suffered severe financial reverses from failed investments. Lee had 5 siblings. Little is known of Lee as a child; he rarely spoke of his boyhood as an adult. Nothing is known of his relationship with his father who, after leaving his family, mentioned Robert only once…