University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Southwest Virginia, the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, and the Union, 1816-1865
Abstract
dc:description"Charles Henry Ambler's thesis of antebellum western Virginia depicted the state as divided into two antagonistic geographic sections, with the creation of West Virginia the inevitable result. Ambler did not take into account southwest Virginia, that part of the ""West"" that aligned itself with eastern Virginia during the sectional crisis. This study attempts to demonstrate that slave-intensive staple agriculture, made more possible by the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, created economic and ideological ties that resulted in an east-southwest alliance in the 1850s. While the ideological rapproachement collapsed during the Civil War, the economic ties survived, setting the stage for rapid industrial development in the Southern Appalachain Mountains."
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- History
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Noe, Kenneth William
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Johannsen, Robert W.
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright 1990 Noe, Kenneth William
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
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AAI9114364
(UMI)AAI9114364 - OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/20642