West Virginia Independence Hall / US Supreme Court / /
Movie
The Civil War / /
NaturalFeature
Virginia mountains / Atlantic coast / Scary Creek / Kanawha Valley / /
Organization
Richmond government / Reorganized Government / Restored Government of Virginia / Union Army / Boundaries Committee of the First Constitutional Convention / Navy / Congress / US Supreme Court / Reorganized Government of Virginia / US Custom House / Virginia House of Delegates / /
Person
Francis H. Pierpont / Montgomery Blair / John J. Jackson / Abraham Lincoln / William McKinley / William H. Seward / Joseph Johnson / John Tyler / Edwin M. Stanton / Benjamin F. Kelley / Waitman T. Willey / John Carlile / Greenbrier / George Catlin / Arthur I. Boreman / John D. Imboden / John Marshall / Salmon P. Chase / Rutherford B. Hayes / Robert E. Lee / James Monroe / McDowell / Mercer / Edward Bates / John J. Jackson Western / /
Position
President / first governor / US executive / Postmaster General / Secretary of the Treasury / General / beleaguered president / Secretary / Secretary of State / Colonel / Governor / Confederate General / First Governor of the State of West / writer / chair / Attorney General / Judge / future president / /
ProvinceOrState
West Virginia / Kanawha / Virginia / Berkeley / Jefferson / Harrison County / Piedmont / West / Barbour County / /
Region
western Virginia / Mid-Atlantic / northwestern Virginia / Eastern Virginia / West Virginia / /
THE 35th STAR Born of the Civil War, West Virginia became the thirty-fifth state under conditions unique in our nation’s history. As some saw it, West Virginia seceded from Virginia after Virginia seceded from the Unio