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West Virginia was once part of Virginia. When Virginia declared secession from the United States to become part of the Confederacy, the counties in northwestern Virginia voted to secede from Virginia and remain loyal to the United States. That area of Virginia became West Virginia. West Virginia became the 35th U.S. state on June 20, 1863.
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When West Virginia broke away from Virginia it was admitted to the union in 1863 as a?
West Virginia was admitted to the Union as a U.S. state on June 20, 1863.
What state did not belong to the confederacy?
You may be referring to West Virginia, which broke away from Virginia when that state seceded from the Union. West Virginia became a state of the Union in 1863.
What state broke away from being a slave state and was admitted to the Union?
West Virginia
Which present-day state broke away from a slave state and was admitted to the union during the civil war?
West Virginia seceded from Virginia when Virginia seceded from the Union. It was admitted in 1864.
Why did Virginia move west?
It was the Western counties of Western Virginia that broke away from Virginia and re-joined the United States. they moved because it was a place that the british didnt poop.
How did the state of west virginia come into exstence?
The majority of people in the northwest part of Virginia were sympathetic to the Union, broke away from Virginia, and became a state in 1863.
What slave states fought with the north?
Five, if you count West Virginia as a state ( in 1860 it was still part of Virginia, but broke away from the Confederacy and joined the Union. In 1863, it became an offical US state). The slave states or Border States were Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Misssouri, and West Virginia
Was Kentucky and West Virginia Union States during the US Civil War.?
Kentucky technically was a neutral State in the US Civil War. West Virginia broke away from Virginia and became a Union State.
Why was the formation of the new state of West Virginia such a blow to the confederacy?
West Virginia was with Virgina, but they disagreed about succeeding from the union, so they broke away from the confederation.
What did the south rename themselves after they broke away from the union?
what did the south rename them selves after they broke away from the union
What war did West Virginia become a state?
In the American Civil War, because the Western counties of Virginia did not approve of the Virginia breaking away from the USA. So they broke away from the CSA, and gave Lincoln a welcome gift of a new state of the Union.
What are the 5 Union states that stayed in the union?
Do you mean the five slave-states that stayed in the Union? There were origially four - Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware. A fifth was the newly-created state of West Virginia, which broke away from the Confederate state of Virginia in 1863.
