Tennessee’s Drive to Statehood: “You Ain’t in Kentucky Darling” I have more than hinted, I have nagged ad nasuum, Tennessee’s path to Statehood was dramatically
Category: the Articles of Confederation
1775-76 and 1789: the First Republic
6.8 Kentucky’s Two Constitutions and Local Government
Kentucky: The First “Frontier” State Constitution State constitutions are a pretty big deal in my economic development history. Not only does the state constitution create
6.7 Kentucky’s Drive to Statehood
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,
6.6 Settlement of Middle Tennessee: Henderson’s Compatriots and the Birth of Nashville
Settlement of Middle Tennessee When North Carolina annexed Watauga in 1776, the latter was fighting dissident Cherokees supplied and encouraged by the British. Over the
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
Ron W. Coan 