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What did the Willey Amendment accomplish?
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What was the name given to the pro-Union government of Virginia that met in Wheeling from 1861 to 1863?
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What was the first officially proposed name for the new state of West Virginia?
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When did President Abraham Lincoln decide to approve 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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Which of the following was NOT included in West Virginia's original constitution?
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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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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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