They were forced to do so. At the time, most African-Americans were still slaves. As a result, they had to move to the west because their owners were moving to the west.
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because all the men's from the west when to war. and their was jobs empty and need people to work. so African Americans move to take those jobs.
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.
The were many people in the civil war.
There was an increase of Afro-Americans in many areas of civilian and military life after the US Civil War. Certainly the "West" was a good place for freed slaves to go inasmuch as much of the new territories either had farmlands in which freed slaves had experience as well as handling livestock. Both these types of work were found in the South before the US Civil War.
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There were 600,000 deaths in the civil war, and probably twice as many lethalities or injuries.