In this task, you are given a sentence and question which can be answered using the sentence. Your task is to answer the question using the information from the sentence. The answer to the question is unique and it is a continuous text span from the sentence.

Sentence: Fayette County was one of the original three counties created from the former Kentucky County , Virginia by the Virginia Act in 1780 , along with Jefferson and Lincoln counties , and which together separated from Virginia in 1792 to become the state of Kentucky . 
 Question: what did something become?
the state of Kentucky