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How did the people of western Virginia respond to Virginia's secession?
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How did civil war bring about the creation of west virginia?
The Western counties of Virginia did not approve of secession.
What new state was formed in eastern and western counties of Virginia?
West Virginia
What helped establish the western boundaries of Virginia and North Carolina in the 1700?
rivers prevented settlement farther west.
How was the western part of Virginia different from the rest before the Civil War?
They were mountain people who had simply never got on with the people from the coast and the valleys. Also there was very little slavery there.
Is China in the Western or Eastern Hemisphere?
western hemisphere
How did the people of western Virginia respond to Virginias secession from the union?
During the American Civil War, the majority of Americans living in the north-and-western portions of Virginia were opposed to slavery. As a result, when Virginia seceded from the Union in April of 1861, they acted to secede from Virginia itself and ally themselves with the North. Their successful actions resulted in the creation of a new American state, West Virginia.
What Virginia event helped the Union?
The secession of the Western Counties of Virginia from the Confederate State of Virginia.
How did civil war bring about the creation of west virginia?
The Western counties of Virginia did not approve of secession.
Why were people in the western counties of Virginia against secession?
because of pirate booty
How did Virginia react to the secession of western counties?
With military force in a failed effort to drive out the Yankees.
What is West Virginia derived from?
The Western counties of Virginia, which did not approve of the secession of Virginia, and voted to break away to form a separate state, joining the Union in 1863.
Why did west virginia become its own state?
Because the mountain people in the Western counties did not think that Virginia should have seceded from the USA. So they seceded from Virginia.
How was West Virginia found?
during the civil war, the western part of virginia didnt agree with virginias decision to be part of the confederacy and to have slavery. so they broke off from virginia to form their own state of "west virginia", and they joined the union
Why did Virginia want to join the union?
The state of Virginia split over the issue of secession. The Virginians who lived in the western part of the state were unanimously against splitting from the union, while the rest of the state wanted secession. So strong was this belief, that the western portion of the state seceded from Virginia, and the state of West Virginia was formed.
Was West Virginia the first state seceded from the country?
No, that was South Carolina. West Virginia was a new state formed from the Western counties of Virginia, which had voted solidly against secession, and broke away from Virginia to join the USA in 1863.
How did the people of western Virginia respond to Virginia is sEcession the union?
because of pirate booty
What state had it's boundries changed when the eastern states joined the Confederacy?
Virginia had it's boundaries change. The western counties did not agree with secession, so "seceded" from the state, forming "West Virginia".
