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Georgia held on to its claims over trans-Appalachian land for another decade, and this claim was complicated by the fact that much of the land was also disputed between the United States and Spain. When Georgia finally sold the land west of its current boundaries to the United States for cash in 1802, the last phase of western cessions was ...
The Trans-Appalachian Frontier: People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775–1850 is a book written by Malcolm J. Rohrbough and published by Oxford University Press in 1978 (first edition) and Indiana University Press (third edition) in 2008.
Trans-Appalachia is an area in the United States bounded to the east by the Appalachian Mountains and extending west roughly to the Mississippi River. It spans from the Midwest to the Upper South. It spans from the Midwest to the Upper South.
A subsequent survey of the Treaty line by John Donelson of Virginia in 1771 placed the northern terminus of the line at the mouth of the Kentucky River, substantially west of the Kanawha River, cleaving what is today extreme western Virginia, a wedge of western Virginia and a large part of northeastern Kentucky to Virginia colony, which lands were then part of newly organized trans-Appalachian ...
Kentucke's Frontiers is a book by Craig Thompson Friend published in 2010 by Indiana University Press.Starting from the 1720s to the conclusion of the War of 1812, Kentucke's Frontiers explores the political, military, and social history of the Kentucky frontier and how these came together to shape the public memory of frontier Kentucky.
1 Land, People, and Early Frontiers 2 Trade, Acculturation, and Empire: 1700-1775 3 The Revolutionary Frontier: 1775-1780 4 Expansion Amid Revolution: 1779-1783 5 Speculation, Turmoil, and Intrigue: 1780-1789 6 The Southwest Territory: 1790-1796 7 The Social Fabric 8 The Frontier Economy 9 Statehood to Nationalism: 1796-1815
By 1800, nearly 400,000 or 7.3% of Americans lived in trans-Appalachian territories, including the new states of Kentucky and Tennessee. [6] At the same time, Spain's alliance with France and the resulting 1798-1802 Anglo-Spanish War led to a British naval blockade that severely impacted their economy.
A deed was drawn up in the name of James Jackson, [7] revealing the corrupt nature of these cessions later pointed out by Andrew Jackson's adversaries, and the Chickasaw lost everything north of the Mississippi border with Tennessee. Andrew Jackson achieved a massive land cession but not the total western removal that was wanted.