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What happen after the western counties that did not favor slavery which led to the creation of west Virginia?
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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.
How did West Virginia join Union?
They did not want to have slavery in the western parts of Virginia, so these western counties broke off to form another state so they could let Virginia join the confederacy and they join the Union
What new state was formed in eastern and western counties of Virginia?
West Virginia
What state was formed when conflict grew between the eastern counties that relied on slave labor and the western counties that favored the abolition of slavery?
The Confederate States of America or if you're being more specific, West Virginia.
What Virginia event helped the Union?
The secession of the Western Counties of Virginia from the Confederate State of Virginia.
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.
What did the western counties of Virginia did in 1863?
Formed their own state of West Virginia, and seceded from Virginia and the Confederacy.
Which part of Virginia sided with the union and became its own in 1863?
The Western counties, up in the mountains, where there had never been much slavery. They had always felt different from the coastal communities, and formed their own state of West Virginia.
What were the four border states remained in the Union but continued to practice slavery?
Kentucky. Missouri. Maryland. Delaware. There was also DC, where slave-trading had been abolished, but slavery still contnued on a small scale until 1862. Also West Virginia, a new state formed out of the Western counties of Virginia, which seceded from Virginia in 1863, but where slavery also continued.
What new states was formed at the beginning of the civil war?
The Western counties of Virginia did not approve of secession from the USA, and so they seceded from Virginia, forming their own Union state (which still practised slavery, though very little) in 1863.
Was West Virginia a state before the Civil War?
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.
Why were people in the western counties of Virginia against secession?
because of pirate booty
