Program Information

Series: The Ground Beneath Our Feet
Program: Reconfiguring Virginia
Segment Number: 1 (Watch entire program)
Duration: 00:02:54
Year Produced: 1998
Description:

In the winter of 1860-61 Virginians disagreed, debated, and eventually waged war on one another. This program looks at why some Virginians decided to take the state out of the union, and why other Virginians decided to divide Virginia and form a new state.

RECONFIGURING VIRGINIA explores the sectional crisis in Virginia from 1860-1861, and the splitting of the commonwealth into two states--Virginia and West Virginia--during the Civil War.

For more information visit: http://www.vahistory.org/reconfiguring/

Virginia Standards

4th Grade SOLs » History-Social Science » VS.9
6th Grade SOLs » History-Social Science » USII.9