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Who designed the Great Seal of West Virginia?
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In 1861, what two Civil War battles allowed pro-Union leaders to take the initial steps toward West Virginia statehood without threat from Confederate attack?
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When did West Virginia's first constitutional convention convene?
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When did President Abraham Lincoln decide to approve West Virginia statehood?
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When did some Western Virginia counties first threaten to break away from Virginia?
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When did Virginia Secession Convention delegates vote to leave the Union and join the Confederacy?
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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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Which West Virginia founder became one of the region's earliest major coal operators in the 1850s?
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Virginia's pro-Union government moved from Wheeling to where when West Virginia became a state?
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