West Virginia - Road to Statehood - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. About this many Union soldiers--and this many Confederate soldiers--came from West Virginia.
   20,000
2. The number of Confederate states
   11
3. These circumstances motivated Lincoln to sign WV's statehood bill.
   Wartime
4. During the 1st Wheeling Convention, John Carlile called for a new state to be named this.
   New Virginia
5. West Virginia had slaves until this year.
   1865
6. One of the principle issues leading to the Civil War.
   Slavery
7. The first state to leave the Union after Lincoln's election.
   South Carolina
8. This president signed the bill admitting West Virginia to the Union.
   Abraham Lincoln
9. Francis Pierpont was given this position for the Reorganized Government of Virginia.
   Governor
10. In the election of 1860, Lincoln claimed less than this many votes in all of Virginia.
    2,000
11. Resigned from the US Congress to lead a cavalry of men loyal to the Confederate States of America
    Albert Jenkins
12. This amendment to the state constitution would free any person born of slaves after July 4, 1863.
    Willey
13. West Virginia would be the Union's ___th state.
    35
14. Generally considered the first land battle of the Civil War.
    Philippi Races
15. Francis Pierpont grew up on a farm in what is now this WV county.
    Marion
16. In the Election of 1860, these two men received the most votes in Virginia.
    John Bell and John Breckinridge
17. The eastern panhandle counties would be included in the new state so the Union could maintain this important method of transportation.
    Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
18. In August 1861, delegates in Wheeling voted to form a new state with this name.
    Kanawha
19. This proclamation only freed slaves in southern states.
    Emancipation Proclamation
20. Second Convention of Wheeling established this state government.
    Reorganized Government of Virginia
21. This individual is called the "Father of West Virginia."
    Francis Pierpont
22. This individual was elected to be the first governor of West Virginia.
    Arthur I. Boreman
23. West Virginia officially joined the Union on this date.
    June 20, 1863
24. This many voters approved the creation of the new state of Kanawha
    18,000