Presented in textbook format, this is a lengthy discussion of the political, economic, and legal reasons West Virginia became a state that joined the Union in the middle of the Civil War. Includes an excellent collection of downloadable learning exercises and many primary source documents. .

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• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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