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∙ 10y agoThey were forced to do so. At the time, most African-Americans were still slaves. As a result, they had to move to the west because their owners were moving to the west.
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∙ 11y agobecause of all the cheap / free land being offered
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∙ 13y agoThe Homestead Act of 1862 promised free land to settlers
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∙ 10y agobecause all the men's from the west when to war. and their was jobs empty and need people to work. so African Americans move to take those jobs.
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∙ 11y agoThe Homestead act
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∙ 10y agoto get land
Because of the slavery. Many people were disagreed with slavery which led to civil war but Virginia wanted to keep slavery so they created another country. since it was in the west they called it West Virginia.
The were many people in the civil war.
There was an increase of Afro-Americans in many areas of civilian and military life after the US Civil War. Certainly the "West" was a good place for freed slaves to go inasmuch as much of the new territories either had farmlands in which freed slaves had experience as well as handling livestock. Both these types of work were found in the South before the US Civil War.
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There were 600,000 deaths in the civil war, and probably twice as many lethalities or injuries.
West Virginia was part of the Civil War. Many battles occurred in the state.
Ulysses S. Grant.
Many migrated north and west
Because of the slavery. Many people were disagreed with slavery which led to civil war but Virginia wanted to keep slavery so they created another country. since it was in the west they called it West Virginia.
Many migrated North and West
Many Migrated North and West OR Many stayed to rebuild the South
Many Migrated North and West OR Many stayed to rebuild the South
Many Migrated North and West OR Many stayed to rebuild the South
Many Migrated North and West OR Many stayed to rebuild the South
Many Migrated North and West OR Many stayed to rebuild the South
Some of the many books that have been published about the Civil War: The Ordeal of the Union, Gone With the Wind, Killer Angels, Centennial history of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America, A Stillness at Appomattox, The Battle at West Point and many more.
Almost all modern cities in the east existed during the civil war and many in the west. Did you not listed in school.