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In western Virginia a movement to secede from the state and rejoin the Union grew. In 1861, 48 Virginia counties organized themselves as a separate state called West Virginia.
The Western counties of Virginia did not approve of secession.
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rivers prevented settlement farther west.
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.
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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.
The secession of the Western Counties of Virginia from the Confederate State of Virginia.
The Western counties of Virginia did not approve of secession.
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With military force in a failed effort to drive out the Yankees.
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.
Because the mountain people in the Western counties did not think that Virginia should have seceded from the USA. So they seceded from Virginia.
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
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.
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.
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Virginia had it's boundaries change. The western counties did not agree with secession, so "seceded" from the state, forming "West Virginia".