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14 Cards in this Set
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What state thought Western territory should be national property and what is national property?
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Maryland - controlled and governed by Congress for the Benefit of all the states
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What state refused to ratify the Articles of Confederation until the Western claims were relinquished?
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Maryland
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What happened to break the deadlock that threatened the confederation?
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New York agreed to yield its claims and the other states followed suit.
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Under the Articles of Confederation the national government acquired possession of what Western lands?
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The territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River.
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What is the Old Southwest?
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The area south of the ohio River.
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What is the Old Northwest
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The region north of the Ohio River.
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What were the first Western states to be settled and admitted into the Union.
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Kentucky in 1792 and Tennessee in 1796.
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He found a path across the Appalachians through the Cumberland Gap.
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Daniel Boone
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This became a main highway for migration into the territory. Who discovered this highway.
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Daniel Boone -
The Wilderness Road |
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Founded Boonesborough in1755 in Kentucky
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Daniel Boone
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Was one of the early settlers of the Wataugh Valley in northeastern Tennessee
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James Robertson
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1799 he planted a settlement at Nashville on the Cumberland River
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James Robertson
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A leader in the Settlement of tennessee, became its first governor when it achieved statehood in 1796
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John Sevier
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Led a force of frontier militia acrosss the Great Smoky Mountains into the Carolinas and helped defeat the British and the Battle of King's Mountain
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John Sevier
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