civil war???

Question

Im reading the book shades of gray for homework tonight.and i know its wrong to use the internet for some homework but i forgot something?

after the civil war which state was deprived the most,ohio or virginia?

did ohio secede from the union

Answer 1

I wish the internet existed when I had homework to do :P.

Ohio was a Union state which provided such northern generals as U.S. Grant and Sherman.

Virginia succeeded from the Union and became the capital of the Confederacy.

In regards to being deprived - after the war Virginia was subject to the reconstruction and had been significantly laid waste by repeated battles. It was not readmitted to the Union until the 1870's. Ohio, had none of those problems, and instead became a major industrial state for the Northern War effort. Therefore, Virginia would be the deprived state of the two.

Answer 2

Ohio was a Union state that lost many of it's most promising sons during the war, but far away from the main fighting it suffered no real damage from the war. In fact Ohio became reached national prominence for it's industrialization and importance in Republican politics in the late 19th century.

The South in general suffered mainly because it's main industry was agriculture, with so many young men dead from the war and the merciful end of slavery there wasn't enough labor to reignite the farms and plantations.. Virginia having the most diverse economy of all the southern states did have less difficulty recovering. However the capital Richmond was shattered in the final months of the war, and the Shenandoah Valley, the state's main food source had been burned. So clearly Virginia suffered more.

Answer 3

Koogle is correct about the ways Virginia suffered from the war itself, esp. since so much fighting went on there. But if might help to be a bit more precise on the date of its full readmission -- not exactly "the 1870s", but January of 1870

(This was the end of "military reconstruction" which had begun under a bill passed in March 1867. As to exactly how harsh the government was under this arrangement -- which was put in place esp to guarantee that the rights of recently freed blacks was secured, was not quite the "military occupation" some portray it as, and was generally much milder in the border states of the former Confederacy -- that's another significant question.)

Answer 4

Virginia

Answer 5

Ohio was a Union state, Virginia Confederate.

You can probably answer your question knowing that.