[DOC] [TLE] West Virginia - Wikipedia [PAR] West Virginia Listen/wst vrdnj/ is a state located in the Appalachian 
region of the ..... Almost immediately after the vote to proceed with secession from 
the Union prevailed in the ... 20 and called for a popular vote on the formation of 
a new state and for a convention to frame a constitution ..... Don't Know/Refused, 
5%. [DOC] [TLE] History of Virginia - Wikipedia [PAR] The History of Virginia begins with documentation by the first Spanish explorers 
to reach the area in the 1500s, when it was occupied chiefly by Algonquian, 
Iroquoian, and Siouan peoples. After a failed English attempt to settle Virginia in 
the 1580s by Sir Walter ... After World War II, the state's economy thrived, with a 
new industrial and... [DOC] [TLE] First Constitutional Convention of West Virginia [PAR] I was speaking to that very proposition - whether the Convention should now take 
.... Mr. President, I wish to state as briefly as I can a few general objections which I 
...... Kanawha is that we tie down these Union counties - counties which we have 
.... after while be as loyal as any men, apparently; and this secession element... [DOC] [TLE] The Civil War | HistoryNet [PAR] Northerners have also called the Civil War the War to Preserve the Union, .... On 
September 10, a Union victory at Carnifax Ferry in the Big Kanawha .... Counties 
of western Virginia had refused to leave the Union when the state seceded in 
1861. ... Sherman's men entered Atlanta after the Confederate army, now under 
the... [DOC] [TLE] Guyandotte Civil War Days - Raid on Guyandotte [PAR] By the fall of 1861, Union forces had gained tenuous control over most of this 
region, ... also called upon Virginia Governor Henry Wise to intervene, but Wise 
refused to ... on Harpers Ferry, which strengthened support for secession in 
Guyandotte. ... soon joined a Confederate force at Camp Tompkins in the 
Kanawha Valley. [DOC] [TLE] The American Civil War and the wars of the Industrial Revolution by ... [PAR] The theatre of war constituted by the United and Confederate States was the 
largest ... would shortly secede from the Confederacy as the new-fledged state of 
West ... Smaller Confederate forces, matched in places by Union handfuls, 
occupied ...... state of West Virginiait might have been called Kanawha, after its 
principal... [DOC] [TLE] 78 US 39 - Justia US Supreme Court Center [PAR] The act of Congress admitting the State of West Virginia into the Union at the ... 
two years after the vote was taken and the transfer of the counties accomplished. 
... of mountain ranges and had never received the heresy of secession, refused to 
..... State of Virginia to form a constitution for a new state to be called Kanawha. [DOC] [TLE] STATE OF VIRGINIA v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA | FindLaw [PAR] Case opinion for US Supreme Court STATE OF VIRGINIA v. ... 1861, attempted 
by a so-called 'ordinance of secession' to separate that State from the Union, ... of 
mountain ranges and had never received the heresy of secession, refused to .... 
admitted into and become part of the said State of West Virginia: Now, therefore,. [DOC] [TLE] Letcher, John (18131884) - Encyclopedia Virginia [PAR] Jan 27, 2010 ... After his release, he resumed his law career, returning to state politics before ... 
James and Kanawha Canal up the North River (now Maury River ), through the ... 
When Virginia governor John B. Floyd called the Virginia ... When Virginians 
ratified the convention's vote to secede from the Union in May 1861,... [DOC] [TLE] "They Cannot Catch Guerrillas in the Mountains Any More Than a ... [PAR] war, even after 50 counties split away to form the state of West Virginia in 1863. 
.... Virginia voted solidly to remain with Virginia and secede from the Union: .... 
exclusively to this last category of guerrillas, historians now typically use the term 
 ..... band in the Kanawha Valley, Bill Pierson in Braxton County and Burleson's... [DOC] [TLE] Review: Rebels At The Gate  TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog [PAR] Jun 22, 2006

Question: What is now this state was briefly called Kanawha after it refused to secede from the Union
Answer: West Virginia