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The route of which railroad helped to determine the shape 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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Which one of the following did NOT attend Virginia's 1830 Constitutional Convention?
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Which of the following was NOT a concession to Western Virginia at Virginia's 1850-51 Constitutional Convention?
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Who codified West Virginia's original laws?
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What does the state motto "Montani Semper Liberi" mean?
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Francis Pierpont was the great-grandson of what early settler?
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Which West Virginia founder helped form the Northwestern Virginia Railroad, which became part of the Baltimore & Ohio?
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West Virginia Independence Hall was originally built as what?
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