Important People
Battles
Wheeling Conventions and Statehood
Antebellum
Overall Civil War facts
100

This abolitionist attacked Harper's Ferry

Who was John Brown

100

The Philippi Races

What was the first land engagement in the Civil War?

100

Restored in the Second Wheeling convention

What is The Reorganized government of Virginia

100

This railroad was created in 1827

What is the B&O railroad?

100

Washington DC

What is the Capital of the US

200

This man from the Clarksburg area was a Confederate general famous for his battles in the Shenandoah Valley

Who was Stonewall Jackson?

200

This battle broke a stalemate in West Virginia, the Union took Lewisburg temporarily, allowed Gen. Averell to enter the south to raid the Tennessee railroad

What is the Battle of Droop Mountain?

200

John Carlile called for this meeting to discuss the Wheeling Conventions?

The First Wheeling Conventions
200

There was not much of it and it was somewhat disliked

What was Western Virginia's relation to slavery?

200

Richmond, Virginia

What is the capital of the Confederacy?

300

The man who set up the conventions to make West Virginia a state

Who was John Carlile?

300

Establish a homebase to then take the whole Ohio River, To destroy the union government of Virginia

What was the Confederate side trying to do in the Battle of Scary Creek?

300

Started as a result of the Second Wheeling Convention

The 1st Constitutional Convention of West Virginia

300

1859

When was the raid on Harper's Ferry?

300

North: Keeping the South in the Union
South: Slavery
Also money for both sides

What were the motivations for the Civil War in the North and South?

400

This was first black major/high ranking officer in the US Military

Who was Martin Delany

400

They pushed the Confederates out of the Monongahela Valley, protected the northwest part of the B&O railroad

What did the Union get when they won the Battle of Rich Mountain?

400

32 out of 47

How many West Virginia counties were represented in the Second Wheeling convention?

400

1850

When was Western Virginia successful in relations with the East?

400

By taking the Kanawha and Monongahela valleys

How did the union manage to take half of West Virginia?

500

This was a Presbyterian minister who wrote against slavery in the Kanawha Valley

Who was Henry Ruffner

500

They secured control of the Kanawha Valley connected it the northeast

What did the Union get at Carnifex Ferry?

500

When Virginia sued us for the eastern panhandle counties in 1871

When did Virginia informally recognize West Virginia?

500

Expansion of voting rights and More trade for Western Virginia

What did West Virginians advocate for in the Virginian Constitutional convention of 1830 and not get?

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