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Constitutional amendments approved by West Virginia voters in 1920 and 1928 led to this development.
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Which was the last Interstate highway completed in West Virginia?
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In 1877, a national strike in which one of the following industries escalated into violence at Martinsburg?
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Lemuel Chenoweth is best remembered for what type of construction?
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Where was the last spike driven to complete the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad from Baltimore to the Ohio River?
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Where does the song say that John Henry, West Virginia's famous steel driver, defeated the steam drill?
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Which one of the following is still a major railroad carrier in West Virginia?
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How many miles of the James River & Kanawha Canal were in present-day West Virginia?
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Locks and dams on this river allowed for some of the earliest commercial coal mining in present-day West Virginia.
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In what city was the Norwalk car made from 1912 to 1922?
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