The mountain people in Virginia's western counties had always felt different to the rest of the state, and when Virginia narrowly voted Confederate, the Westerners planned to secede from Virginia.
There was only a little slavery in West Virginia, so it didn't worry Lincoln when they quit the Confederacy and joined the Union.
Because of the slavery. Many people were disagreed with slavery which led to civil war but Virginia wanted to keep slavery so they created another country. since it was in the west they called it West Virginia.
West Virginia was originally part of the State of Virginia. After Virginia seceded and joined the Confederacy, West Virginia seceded from Virginia and joined the Union as a new State.
West Virginia was a part of Virginia until after the Civil War started, so technically at the start of the war what would become West Virginia was in the Confederacy. However, West Virginia separated itself form Virginia to join the Union as a free state, so West Virginia was aligned with the North after it came to exist as a separate political entity from Virginia.
When Virginia seceded from the Union during the Civil War on 17 Aprol 1861, several counties in the northwestern part of the state decided to secede from the state and remain part of the United States. Lincoln declared West Virginia a state in violation of the US Constitution.
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The mountain people in Virginia's western counties had always felt different to the rest of the state, and when Virginia narrowly voted Confederate, the Westerners planned to secede from Virginia. There was only a little slavery in West Virginia, so it didn't worry Lincoln when they quit the Confederacy and joined the Union.
West Virginia was pro Union during the Civil War.
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No. Civil unions are not recognized as marriages in West Virginia.
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Before it became a state during the Civil War, West Virginia was made up of the western 49 counties of Virginia, which seceded from Virginia (and the Confederacy) in 1862.
West Virginia was part of Virginia until the Civil War.
West Virginia was part of the Civil War. Many battles occurred in the state.
West Virginia was a part of Virginia that was anti-slavery, so they created a border and West Virginia joined the Union.
Virginia wanted to!
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That was West Virginia, which sceded from Virginia.