Quick Quiz 49

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Quick Quiz 49

This U.S. Senator, who was born in Brown, West Virginia, served as chairman of the Senate Subcommittee of War Mobilization of the Military Affairs Committee during World War II.

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Harley Kilgore

Rush Holt

Matthew Neely

Jennings Randolph

Chapman Revercomb

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The West Virginia State Wildlife Center is located in this county.

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Upshur County

Mineral County

Mason County

Braxton County

Ritchie County

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This West Virginia community was named for the capital city of Greece.

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Thessalonika

Princeton

Lerona

Montcalm

Athens

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On April 30, 1774, family members of this notable Native American chief were murdered in present-day Hancock County.

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Blue Jacket

Logan

Cornstalk

Mingo

Tecumseh

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Big Ditch Lake Wildlife Management Area is located in what West Virginia county?

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Nicholas County

Clay County

Ritchie County

Roane County

Webster County

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This Summers County community was named for a balloonist who landed in the area in 1836.

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Hix

Brooks

Clayton

Hinton

Talcott

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This Charleston native is the author of Blood Tie, which won the 1978 National Book Award for Fiction.

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Jedediah Purdy

Denise Giardina

Mary Lee Settle

Breece D'J Pancake

Louise McNeill Pease

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In 2000, these two counties were the least heavily forested in West Virginia.

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Tucker and Randolph

Boone and Logan

Monongalia and Marion

Pocahontas and Webster

Jefferson and Berkeley

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Which of the following best shows the role geography played in the sectionalism that developed between east and west in antebellum Virginia?

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Salt producers in the Kanawha Valley made use of slave labor, which brought a sharp decline in the slave population of eastern counties after 1830, angering plantation owners who depended on hired slaves to tend their cotton fields.

Western Virginia was hilly and poorly suited to the slave-supported plantation system that existed in the east, creating different economic systems in east and west.

Western Virginia was settled by independent-thinking Scotch-Irish who became isolated from the rest of the country and developed a mountain culture that had nothing in common with eastern Virginia.

The rivers in West Virginia flow in a north-south direction, carrying water either south to the Gulf of Mexico or north to Lake Erie, which led to more contact with Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky than with eastern Virginia.

The Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains blocked settlers from moving westward from the Tidewater region, so none of the people who lived in western Virginia came from the eastern part of the state.

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On May 13, 1861, pro-Union delegates from northwestern Virginia met in this city in response to Virginia's secession from the Union.

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Wellsburg

Wheeling

Clarksburg

Parkersburg

Fairmont

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