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Who designed the Great Seal of West Virginia?
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This Methodist minister was one of the few delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1861 to support the complete abolition of slavery in the new state of West Virginia.
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This Wheeling newspaper editor was one of the leading advocates for West Virginia statehood.
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Of the 47 Western Virginia delegates at the Virginia Secession Convention, how many voted to secede from the Union?
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What were Northern Democrats who supported the Union but opposed the abolition of slavery often called?
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How long after the Virginia Secession Convention did the First Wheeling Convention convene?
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Which of the following statements about West Virginia statehood is NOT true?
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The original constitution of West Virginia ruled that any enslaved person born after this date would be free?
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Which West Virginia founder has a community and technical college named for him?
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Virginia's pro-Union government moved from Wheeling to where when West Virginia became a state?
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