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On what date did West Virginia enter the union?
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How many buildings have served as West Virginia's capitol?
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The inclusion of which two counties required an act of Congress and a U.S. Supreme Court decision?
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This Wheeling newspaper editor was one of the leading advocates for West Virginia statehood.
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What was the first officially proposed name for the new state of West Virginia?
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Which one of the following was the only concession made to Western Virginia at Virginia's 1830 Constitutional Convention?
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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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Who is the only founder of West Virginia with a statue in the U.S. Capitol?
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Virginia's pro-Union government moved from Wheeling to where when West Virginia became a state?
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