Kentucky’s drive to attain statehood–independence from Virginia–formally began in September, 1784. It ended successfully in spring 1791. Tennessee’s started in the same year, in October,
Category: Settlement of the Shenandoah Valley
German & Scots Irish, Northern Neck, Land Development Companies formation and politics of, Land development Companies and Homesteading-immigration
6.5 Kentucky as a Virginia County
The reader ought to know a bit of what’s coming in this module. First, Kentucky was an offshoot from Virginia. It spent seventeen years as
6.4 Settlement Begins and Virginia Takes Over Kentucky:Daniel Boone the Economic Developer
Settlement Begins: Tennessee and Kentucky–Virginia Takes Over Kentucky This module first describes the initial, pre-1780 settlement of Tennessee and Kentucky, detailing the major actors and
6.3 Dynamics & Realities Underlying Trans-Appalachian Western Settlement
Dynamics Underlying Trans-Appalachian/Mississippi River Western Settlement Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio were the first trans-Appalachian western states–all three would be states by 1803. European settlement was
6.1 Insights into What Lies Ahead
Although Chapter 4 treats Kentucky and Tennessee individually, the Chapter as a whole serves to compares Kentucky and Tennessee’s path to statehood and post-statehood policy
6.0 The First Southwest: Tennessee and Kentucky: Why States Differ?
Why are states, even states that border each other, so different? Kentucky and Tennessee–neighboring states–Became states at exactly the same time. Yet they went in
Ron W. Coan 