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Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, as well as the southwest corner of Pennsylvania and most of present West Virginia was carved from this Virginia county.
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This Ohio River county was named for the governor of Virginia who owned most of the land there.
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Which of the following was NOT among the earliest settlers of the Greenbrier Valley?
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Which one of the following did NOT routinely kill Indians out of retaliation for the deaths of family members?
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This Delaware chief led two deadly attacks on forts in present-day Pendleton County during the French & Indian War.
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Who bought up much of the area in and around Charleston in the late 1700s from John Dickinson and George Clendenin?
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Vandalia was a failed attempt at what?
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George Washington was this age when he became a surveyor in what is now West Virginia?
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James Madison, the "father of the constitution" and future fourth president, married his wife, Dolley Payne, in the Jefferson County home of this person.
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Which one of the following counties did NOT experience an uprising in response to the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion?
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