West Virginia Research Paper

The gorgeous New River/Greenbrier Valley is located in the southern portion of West Virginia. It is east of the Hatfield-McCoy Mountains, southeast of the Metro Valley, south of the Mountain Lakes, and southwest of the Potomac Highlands. Its counties include Fayette, Raleigh, Wyoming, McDowell, Mercer, Summers, Greenbrier, and Monroe. It hosts a few major cities, such as Beckley, Lewisburg, Fayetteville, and Princeton, which are all county seats. This tourist region offers a variety of activities for tourists, such as white-water rafting, the Greenbrier River Trail, the Tamarack, Winterplace, the Midland Trail, and the Coal Heritage Trail. The trails are an entertaining way to show tourists the history of the area, but the Tamarack is an artisan center located in Beckley, and Winterplace is a ski resort.

West Virginia is known as the "mountain state." It consists of many beautiful lakes, rivers, streams, and quite a few tourist attractions, such as Babcock. Not only that, but West Virginia is made up of several different biomes. West Virginia is also made up of forests, as well.

To begin, the first reason why I chose the western part is because they were going to become part of the union. Since Virginia wasn’t a state yet, western Virginia didn’t have to follow the constitutional laws. In other words, the people wanted to secede. Secession is an action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially in a political state. Many people in that time thought it would actually give them a chance of having the right to vote. Still, there were many people that lived in that time that lived in the

It was the year 1777. The Revolutionary War is breaking out and George Washington and his army are making camp at Valley Forge during a dreadful winter. It was the week before Christmas when Valley Forge was established. 18 miles northwest of Philadelphia,at valley Forge, George Washington was at valley Forge to watch the British. The total troops at Valley Forge was in December 1777 was 12,000. Then in February 1778 there was 8,000. So my question is: Had you been a soldier at Valley Forge, would you have quit? I have decided to not re-enlist for three reasons which are 12 men living in one hut, not wanting to get smallpox and dysentery, and I do not want to die.

Kentucky became a state in 1792 as the 15th state, also becoming the first U.S. state west of the Appalachian Mountains. Kentucky University’s colors are white and blue. Explorer Daniel Boone was one of Kentucky’s most important explorers and many immigrants followed the trail he traveled through the Cumberland Gap, also known as the Wilderness Road. Although it went with the Confederacy during the Civil War, the population was deeply divided, and many Kentucky residents fought for the North. Mostly known as an agricultural area into the 20th century, Kentucky is also a major U.S. coal producer and site of the U.S. military bases Fort Knox and Fort Campbell. It is also known as the home of the legendary Kentucky Derby horse race and bluegrass

The air is filled with the smell of burning bodies. It is the winter of 1777, and my condition is getting worse as the days pass. Most of the soldiers here don’t rest that much so everyday they look weary. The winter at Valley Forge started on December 19, 1777 in Pennsylvania. The question I ask myself everyday is if I have served my 9 months should I reenlist or leave? I have decided to not re-enlist for three reasons which are smallpox and diseases, bad weather and starvation, and poor medication and treatment. I know that if I don’t re-enlist it could make a huge impact on the soldiers.

I find myself one of George Washington’s soldiers fighting for the rebels at Valley Forge. Valley Forge is a hard place to live and especially fight, but something’s make more of an impact than other things here. One is that our hearts are constantly filled with smoke and our eyes are constantly affected by this. Another is a sickness, we have thousands of men sick here and many have already died. And one of the main things is that we are running very low on meat and quality food and we are eating low protein food. But despite those things I still have a hard decision to make soon I will have to decide to reenlist or not and go home to my family. I believe that I will reenlist for three reasons which are I need to provide for my family and

In days long when many non-whites were racially segregated , and/or discriminated, making a colored community was unthinkable.That was until one man named James Clemens, a freed slave, broke that barrier, and established Longtown Ohio.The uniqueness of the community, though, was that it was a sanctuary for many different races that were unfit for other communities. This was a place where many different races could interact with each other peacefully. If Riverside, or even our country as a whole had this type of ideology, then there is a likelihood that we would all live in harmony, and safety. It's time we take some ideas from Longtown, and apply them to our country/Riverside. An article published by The Washington Post, “ Ohio Town holds rare history: Races

It was not an easy beginning For the Jamestown settlement. The first group of colonist came there in 1607, and the last group in 1611. They came in through Chesapeake bay, which is in Virginia, and sailed up James river then settled on a peninsula. The reason they came was to find gold, teach the Native Americans about God, and find a hidden trade route to China. One thing that helped a lot was growing tobacco and others.They were also not successful with any of their tasks.The reason so many colonists Died was for these three things mainly, Native problems, environmental problems, and that they were not prepared to work.

The settlement was called "Jamestown," after its king, James I, made possible a private enterprise whose purpose was to search for gold and silver deposits in the New World, as well as authorize the creation of a route to the Pacific Ocean, which allowed them to establish a trade with the East. A fort was built (James Fort) to protect against Indian tribes and a possible attack by Spaniards settlements in Florida. The first years were very hard on the settlers. There were lack of local food, the difficulty of replenishing supplies from England, and the inability to cope with diseases killed nearly 90 percent of the settlers at that time. Later, during the following decades, the colony expanded significantly in size thanks to a new group of

Unlike many other states Nevada’s statehood is very much connected to the Civil war and is not just a gambling town. Nevada was the second of only two states to be added to the Union during the Civil War. Some people from Nevada or that know a lot about Nevada may call it by one if its three most common nicknames such as, Battle-Born State, Sagebrush State, and Silver State. Nevada got its name from a group of Spaniards who called it Nevada which translated to English means snowy, because of how the mountains were always covered in snow during the winter. Today Nevada is part of the United States, which has not always been the case, Nevada became part of Mexico in 1821, and was not in possession of America until the Mexican-American War in 1848.When Nevada was finally taken by the United States, it became part of the Utah territory and was no longer called Nevada, until silver was discovered in the Comstock Lode in 1859 which led to a population boom, which led to Nevada becoming its own territory, but it still hadn’t made its way to statehood yet.

Virginia Hall was born on April 6, 1906 in Baltimore, Maryland, into the home of a wealthy family. Some of Hall’s schooling took place in France, Austria, and Germany, which helped her in her foreign studies in college. When she was just 26 she accidentally shot off her foot while hunting turkey, having to have her leg amputated from the knee down. Because of her injury she couldn’t keep her job working in the Department of State, thus resigning in 1939.When the war broke out, Hall was living in Paris, France. She joined the British Secret Paramilitary Force Special Operations Executive (SOE), she was recruited by the SOE while riding on a train out of France. She worked with the SOE for about two years, in 1940 the Nazis started to overtake

The town of Fayetteville, West Virginia is very important and is fun to visit. Fayetteville is the county seat of Fayette County and the town was established in 1837. I am constantly going to Fayetteville for various reasons, including going to see the historic sites and to do business at the Courthouse. I just recently had to visit the Courthouse to receive my marriage license and certificate, but the Courthouse is available for other important activities. The town of Fayetteville has been ranked in the “Top 10 Coolest Small Towns in America” by the Budget Travel Magazine. Fayetteville was originally named Vandalia after the founder Abraham Vandal. Vandal was a veteran of the Revolutionary War and he was

Western literature at the turn of the century was typically written by a male and because of this there are huge discrepancies in a women’s’ fictional character in a story versus her role during the Victorian Age. This article focuses on reviewing Virginia Wolf’s work, women’s’ roles in the bible, and fictitious characters versus their actual role in society to examine this topic. During the Victorian Age there were three stereotypical

The live stock is week old chicken are the state most valuable followed by beef cattle. Crops they sell are tomatoes corn they even sell fruit. Nun factions add value to raw products are the most valuable product. Coal is