The Counties that were West of Appalachians.
Because the people living in the western part of Virginia wanted to remain part of the Union, breaking away from Virginia and forming the separate state of West Virginia
West Virginia was a part of Virginia that was anti-slavery, so they created a border and West Virginia joined the Union.
after seceding from Virgina west Virginia became a slave state A2 The above answer is incorrect. The Western part of Virginia left Virginia(during the civil war) to become a free state and is now called West Virginia. The remaining part of Virginia (what we now call Virginia) sided with the confederacy.
West Virginia split from Virginia at the start of the Civil War due to slavery, and Virginia became a part of the Confederacy while West Virginia remained in the Union.
it was part of the union.
The entire state of Virginia left the Union at the start of the Civil War. The counties now consisting of most of West Virginia were easily captured by Union forces and became a separate free state early in the Civil War.
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.
Depending how you look at it, it is either four (Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware and Maryland) or five. During the Civil War, territories on the western side of Virginia split from that state to form West Virginia. West Virginia sided with the Union.
The northwestern part of the state. The exact counties that would become West Virginia changed several times, and the Union never controlled all of today's West Virginia until the war ended. This makes describing the area a little tricky.
1863
West Virginia was once a part of the state of Virginia. WV was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863.
California. it was not part of the union. NEW RESPONDENT. It should be Kansas, because it immediately sided with Union. California was part of the Union, because it had already been admitted to the Union on Sept. 9, 1850.
Because the people living in the western part of Virginia wanted to remain part of the Union, breaking away from Virginia and forming the separate state of West Virginia
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california. it was not part of the union. NEW RESPONDENT. It should be Kansas, because it immediately sided with Union. California was part of the Union, because it had already been admitted to the Union on Sept. 9, 1850.
The whole of Virginia seceded. Then the mountainous Northwestern part of the state seceded from Virginia, and declared a new state of the Union, West Virginia.
West Virginia broke apart from the slave state Virginia and joined the Union, but for the most part all slave states were Confederate.