WV Road to Statehood

Resigned from the US Congress to join the confederacy and lead raids in West Virginia with his older brothers.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen Douglas

• Albert Jenkins

• Waitman T. Willey

President of the US during the Civil War and West Virginia's statehood movement.

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Carlile

• Arthur I. Boreman

• George Porterfield

A Marion County lawyer who would become governor of the restored government of Virginia.

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Carlile

• Francis Pierpont

• John C. Bell

US Senator from Virginia that saved West Virginia statehood movement with the amendment named for him that gradually emancipated slaves

• Waitman T. Willey

• John Carlile

• John C Bell

• Albert Jenkins

Union commander at the Philippi Races

• Waitman T. Willey

• Abraham Lincoln

• John C. Bell

• Benjamin Kelley

The presidential candidate that won the state of Virginia from the Constitutional Union Party.

• Abraham Lincoln

• John C. Bell

• John Carlile

• Stephen Douglas

The first governor of West Virginia

• John Carlile

• Stephen Douglas

• Arthur I. Boreman

• Waitman T. Willey

The Confederate commander at the Philippi Races.

• Waitman T. Willey

• George Porterfield

• John C. Bell

• Stephen Douglas

The Northern Democrat presidential candidate in 1860 believed in allowing the people of a territory to decide whether to permit slavery in their communities.

• Stephen Douglas

• John C. Bell

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Carlile

Over the years, the tension between eastern and western Virginians included all of the following except

• representation

• indentured servants

• education

• transportation