why was west virginia created?
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i know where you are going with this question. yes, state governments should be consolidated, merged and made more efficient, like all businesses of today. now the hard part: the very people who would lose their jobs are the ones who would need to begin this process of reduction and then vote for this consolidation. looks good to me.
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I don't believe any of the choices are correct, I'd be curious to see your source.\n\nThe Quakers had early settlements in Virginia, nothing really specifically connected witht eh Appalachain Mountains.
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I don't know about West Virginia, but in Texas you can't shoot with in 100 yards of a house.  In other words, we have six acres but there are some house around so we can't shoot here.  We can go down the road where there are no houses and shoot all we want.
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Brad got it, but the question itself is incorrect.  The State of Franklin, formed in 1784 from land used by North Carolina to pay War debts, was part of the union held lands but never became one of the United States.\nThe ratification vote went 7 to 6 in favor, but this was 2 less than the number needed.  The land was then passed into the Southwest Territory which became the State of Tennessee a few years later.
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I really don't know much about WV, but I've been there a couple times (to Huntington). If the rest of WV is like there, you're better off moving to VA. Don't get me wrong, the people are so nice, but there just aren't many jobs. I also have a cousin who lives in the mountains in Berkeley Springs and he works in MD.
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Do you mean West Virginia? If you do, this may help you. http://www.wv.gov/
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Well, Don M, there are four commonwealths - MA, VA, PA and KY - but all of them are states in the union, together with the other 46, presuming the asker means the States in the Union of the present day United States of America.\nNow if the question is how many States were in the Union during the Civil War (as opposed to the Confederacy) we might look at the flag. At the outbreak of the Civil War (1861), the US Flag had a field of 33 stars representing 33 states. President Lincoln refused to remove the stars representing those states which seceded from the Union. (The Confederate Battle Flag had 13 stars to represent the 13 States of the Confederacy) From the first 3 months until 1863, the flag had 34 stars. In 1863, West Virginia separated from Virginia to join the Union. Consequently the Union flag had 35 stars until the close of the Civil War.
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Jamestown (a.k.a. Jamestown Island) was founded in 1607 on a River (Virginia)|James River]] in what is currently James City County, Virginia, about 40 miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean and the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay and about 45 miles (70 kilometers) downstream and southeast of Richmond, Virginia. Both the James River and the new settlement were named for King James I of England, who granted the private proprietorship to the Virginia Company. That company's Virginia Colony, which was first established at Jamestown, was the first permanent English colony in what is now the United States to survive. It followed the failure of 18 earlier attempts including the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island to the south in what is now North Carolina. Jamestown is second only to St. Augustine, Florida as the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the present-day United States, the latter having been founded 42 years earlier (1565) by a the Spanish Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.\n\nThe Powhatans were the principal Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe that lived around the area near Jamestown. Throughout the 17th century, the capital and major point of the Virginia Colony was Jamestown, and to many, the names were synonymous. Gradually, other less important points emerged especially along the James River as the colony grew. Since the economic basis was primarily agriculture, in the early period, other than Jamestown, most developments were large plantations rather than traditional towns, usually located near the waterways such as the James River, and many had their own wharfs. However, by 1619, the newly-formed House of Burgesses ordered that each county establish a principal town which would have warehouses for both imports and exports, and some concentrated housing.\n\n \nSketch of Jamestown c. 1608Although Jamestown was an important centre of government and commerce in the 17th century, the location was plagued by mosquitoes, brackish tidal river water which was unsuitable for drinking, and offered limited space for major expansion. Several times during contingencies, such as fires and Bacon's Rebellion, the seat of government for the colony was shifted temporarily to nearby Middle Plantation, which was a fortified location on the high ridge approximately equidistant from the James and York Rivers on the Virginia Peninsula. When the Colony was finally granted a long-desired charter for a college in 1693, Middle Plantation was chosen as the site of the new College of William and Mary, named for the British king and queen who granted the royal charter. After another accidental state house fire at Jamestown in 1698, the capital of the Colony was permanently relocated to Middle Plantation in 1699. The new capital town was soon renamed Williamsburg, in honor of the current British king, William III.\n\nJamestown began a gradual loss of prominence after the capital was relocated, and eventually reverted to a few large farms. It became a significant point for control of the James River during the American Civil War (1860-1865), and then slid back into seeming oblivion until the early 20th century. Renewed interest in the historical aspects began around 1907 with the 300th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown. However, the general area of Jamestown itself was not very accessible in a day of rail travel before automobiles were common. Thus, the 1907 Jamestown Exposition was held about 30 miles downstream near the mouth of the James River at Sewell's Point on Hampton Roads, a site accessible by both long-distance passenger railroads and local streetcar service, with considerable frontage on the harbor of Hampton Roads, which proved ideal for the naval delegations which came from points all around the world. The Exposition site later formed the first portion of the large U.S. Naval Station Norfolk in 1918 during World War I.\n\nHowever, by 50 years later, conditions had changed and the 350th anniversary celebration w
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as far as I know, this country was formed on the back of the indians, built by the hands of slaves, and once that was finished, they want to reap the benefits without sharing. \nKind of like the ant and the grasshopper.\n\nLet people have freedom to come to the land of the free, and stop blowing money on alcahol, drugs, gambling, and stripclubs.\n\nWhere is our God????
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yes I went on the New River in West Virginia.  It was amazing i highly recommend doing it if you have the opportunity.
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???\n\nAre you asking about where the Presidents were born?  Virginia and Ohio are home to the most presidents:\n\nVA - Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, WH Harrison (born there), Tyler, Taylor, Wilson\n\nOH - WH Harrison (lived there), Grant, Hayes, Garfield, B Harrison, McKinley, Taft, Harding
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from the link below:\n\nIt was established in 1854 by a coalition of former Whigs, Northern Democrats, and Free Soilers who opposed the expansion of slavery and held a Hamiltonian vision for modernizing the nation.
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the northern states wanted to defeat the southern states so as to keep the states together. they won (obviously) and therefore kept the US as a whole. And there's this website to help you:\n\nwww.vermontcivilwar.org
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It's Washington, DC, home to the US government. It's between Virginia and Maryland and was set up as a district because the founding fathers didn't want a single state having claim to the national capital -- they wanted it independent.
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It is a State too!\n\n"West Virginia is a state of the United States in the region of Appalachia, generally known as The Mountain State. West Virginia broke away from the Commonwealth of Virginia during the American Civil War and was admitted to the Union as a separate state on June 20, 1863."
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Its where the states got to chose if they wanted to be a slave state or a free state. I'm studing the SAME THING!!! Good luck!! =)
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The state of Virginia,was named after a lady named Virginia. Virginia orginated in the state of New York.