• natural resources attract industrial capitalism

• penetration of railroad, timber, and coal industries

• railroads link WV to national markets

• the legal revolution

• stages of single industry towns

• stages in the development of the lumber industry

• cautionary voices urge controlled industrial growth

• immigration and creating a labor force

• race and ethnicity

• labor-management differences

• industrial warfare in West Virginia

• hard times in the pre-Depression decade

• Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, and connecting railroads

• virgin forest

• forest fallowing

• county seat wars

• debt peonage

• Aretus B. Fleming

• William A. MacCorkle

• William M. O. Dawson

• Mother Jones

• Wiliam E. Glasscock

• Henry D. Hatfield

• Sid Hatfield

• Charles E. Lively

• Ephraim Morgan

• Warren G. Harding

• WV Tax Commission of 1884

• WV Conservation Commission

• United Mine Workers of America

• Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency

• Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike

• the Hitchman decision

• yellow-dog contracts

• mine war of 1920-1921

• Matewan Massacre

• miners march of 1921

• treason trial of 1922

• Fairmont field strike of 1925

• segregation in the schools

Study Questions:

• What attractions did West Virginia hold for capital investors? How were the state's resources promoted? What economic and environmental problems were raised by rapid development of the state's resources?

• What were the consequences of the railroad and timber boom on agriculture, the environment, and backcounty society?

• What technological stages mark the development of the lumber industry, and how was the production process affected?

• What were the miners= grievances against the West Virginia coal operators? How did coal operators attempt to control their work force? How did miners respond? How did the state and national governments respond to labor-management conflict in the coal fields?

• What were the results of the mine war of 1920-1921? What issues were involved in the northern West Virginia coal field strike of 1925? Who was involved in that strike? What characterized life in the northern coalfields? What effect did segregated education have on African American children in the state during the pre-Depression decade?