West Virginia's leading industry, coal, underwent wrenching changes. In the early stages of the Depression, the industry suffered from a virtual collapse as mining companies failed and unemployment grew, leaving once busy coal camps idle and stranding thousands of miners and their families.
The Federal Government receives finding from taxes coming out of salaries, which is called income tax. In the US especially, taxes contribute to the funding of Medicaid and social security benefits.
Direct democracy and pure democracy are the same thing. All decisions are based and voted on by the people.
Lincoln was worried about Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware because they were all border states during the civil war. He was worried that they would transform into complete slave states. If they did, the north wouldn’t have much more land and the north would have lost the civil war. He wanted to contain them.
