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On what date did West Virginia enter the union?
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What was West Virginia's first capital city?
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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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Who was governor of the pro-Union government of Virginia that met in Wheeling from 1861 to 1863?
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Which one of the following states does West Virginia NOT share a border with?
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When did some Western Virginia counties first threaten to break away from Virginia?
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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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Francis Pierpont was the great-grandson of what early settler?
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Which West Virginia founder became one of the region's earliest major coal operators in the 1850s?
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