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The route of which railroad helped to determine the shape of West Virginia?
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Who designed the Great Seal of West Virginia?
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Of the 47 Western Virginia delegates at the Virginia Secession Convention, how many voted to secede from the Union?
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When did West Virginia's first constitutional convention convene?
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How many counties were part of West Virginia when it entered the Union?
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Which one of the following Western Virginia delegates voted FOR Virginia to secede from the Union?
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The original constitution of West Virginia ruled that any enslaved person born after this date would be free?
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What does the state motto "Montani Semper Liberi" mean?
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Francis Pierpont was the great-grandson of what early settler?
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Virginia's pro-Union government moved from Wheeling to where when West Virginia became a state?
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