Why Knoxville as a Case Study?–Knoxville was selected for the following reasons: (1) its dominant Scots-Irish political culture would offer insight as to how that
Category: Tennessee to 1800
7.4 Inward MED City-Building East of the Mississippi Midwest and South Central States Under Construction
See Bruchey Chapter 6–Shift from Federal Aid See Dorfman See Warner Urban Wilderness and Wade–it affected the Midwest
6.14 Tennessee’s Initial Policy System
the Initial Tennessee Policy System to 1806 During the decade from 1796 to 1806 the Tennessee frontier policy system, like Kentucky’s described earlier, pursued limited
6.13 Tennessee Statehood and 1796 Constitution
Tennessee Statehood the Struggle (i.e. Process) Behind Tennessee Statehood and State-building Statehood Kentucky negotiated its statehood with the State of Virginia, a seven year long
6.12 Blount’s Political Machine Fights Cherokee War
Southwestern Territory: Phase I of Blount’s Drive to Statehood The State of Franklin, a study in political fiction, land speculation and homestead settlement, sort of
6.11 Plan B: the State of Franklin
The State of Franklin: a Nothing-burger, a Land Speculator’s Republic, or an Experiment in Western Democracy? (1784-1789) Few Americans, and no economic developers, are aware