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all right. welcome back, everybody. we are obviously at that point in the semester where we re looking at west virginia statehood, the creation of the state that we re currently in. we can finally, after this point, stop talking about western virginia and eastern virginia. we ve we ve been sort of looking at in the last week or so, looking at sort of the divides between eastern virginia and western virginia. we ve talked about some of the political differences, the the the grievances that western authors have about the lack of funding for internal improve ments, roads, highways. we ve obviously talked about the very complex role of slavery in the region as well. and we left off last time looking at the virginia secession convention when delegates decided to pull virginia out of the union in april of 1861 and shortly thereafter, that delegates go back to their home counties, that that s sort of talked about this last time. and they re trying to get support for a statewide refe
welcome back, everybody. we are obviously at that point in the semester where we re looking at west virginia statehood, the creation of the state that we re currently in. we can finally, after this point, stop talking about western virginia and eastern virginia. we ve we ve been sort of looking at in the last week or so, looking at sort of the divides between eastern virginia and western virginia. we ve talked about some of the political differences, the the the grievances that western authors have about the lack of funding for internal improve ments, roads, highways. we ve obviously talked about the very complex role of slavery in the region as well. and we left off last time looking at the virginia secession convention when delegates decided to pull virginia out of the union in april of 1861 and shortly thereafter, that delegates go back to their home counties, that that s sort of talked about this last time. and they re trying to get support for a statewide referendum on s
all right. welcome back, everybody. we are obviously at that point in the semester where we re looking at west virginia statehood, the creation of the state that we re currently in. we can finally, after this point, stop talking about western virginia and eastern virginia. we ve we ve been sort of looking at in the last week or so, looking at sort of the divides between eastern virginia and western virginia. we ve talked about some of the political differences, the the the grievances that western authors have about the lack of funding for internal improve ments, roads, highways. we ve obviously talked about the very complex role of slavery in the region as well. and we left off last time looking at the virginia secession convention when delegates decided to pull virginia out of the union in april of 1861 and shortly thereafter, that delegates go back to their home counties, that that s sort of talked about this last time. and they re trying to get support for a statewide refe
all right. welcome back, everybody. we are obviously at that point in the semester where we re looking at west virginia statehood, the creation of the state that we re currently in. we can finally, after this point, stop talking about western virginia and eastern virginia. we ve we ve been sort of looking at in the last week or so, looking at sort of the divides between eastern virginia and western virginia. we ve talked about some of the political differences, the the the grievances that western authors have about the lack of funding for internal improve ments, roads, highways. we ve obviously talked about the very complex role of slavery in the region as well. and we left off last time looking at the virginia secession convention when delegates decided to pull virginia out of the union in april of 1861 and shortly thereafter, that delegates go back to their home counties, that that s sort of talked about this last time. and they re trying to get support for a statewide refe