Appalachian Mountains

LOCATION Our beautiful colony has rolling hill,high mountains and meandering rivers, with the hills overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.He also posses a large amount of open soil,perfect for those pursuing the farming profession.Another attraction is the beautiful Hudson River, and Mohawk rivers,our major waterways and the soaring Appalachian mountains. New York is in the middle colonies HISTORY In 1626,our glorious founder,The Duke of York,came to what is now our colony…

French possession. As stated by Francis Parkman, and American historian, “the realm of France received a stupendous accession” (BOOK), referring to the fertile plains of Texas, and the region spanning from the mouth of the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountain peaks claimed for France (BOOK), as La Louisiane in honor of king Louis XIV. The Texas claim was never very serious, but it did furnish the United States, after the Louisiana Purchase, with an excuse for challenging the Spanish title to…

After the French and Indian War, political power in the colonies was dramatically altered. The British acquired all of France’s land that was previously owned before the war. This area consisted of land east of the Mississippi river (Doc A). However, this land was largely disputed over after the war. As colonists started expanding westward into the newly claimed territory, the natives that resided there began to get angry. As stated in a speech by a member of the Iroquois Confederacy prior to…

In the first half of the nineteenth century, economic changes called by historians “the market revolution” transformed the United States. Innovations in transportation and communication sparked these changes. In the colonial era, technology had barely advanced—ships did not become faster, no canals were built, and manufacturing was done by hand. Roads were scarce and slow. In 1800, most farm families were not tied to the marketplace, used little cash, and produced much of what they needed at…

Reasons Why Mountain Dew Should Never Be Drunk Human history remembers many wars, disease breakouts, epidemics, as well as hunger and poverty. Wars and diseases took many lives and nobody wants these problems to appear ever again. However, there is one dangerous sugary drink called Mountain Dew that is drunk by many people every day. In 1940, Tennessee, Ally and Barney Hartman invented the formula for this drink. In 1958, Bill Bridgforth changed the formula. In the same year, the Tip…

unethical decision implemented by the government of the United States. It is insane to think the United States would do such a thing especially with a patriotic history. The Trail of Tears (1838–1839) was an eight hundred mile journey from the southern Appalachians to Indian Territory. Over 17,000 Cherokee had been evicted and 4,000, possibly more, died along the way. This was not only from harsh weather condition, starvation, and disease, but also military treatment along the journey. The…

Their Dreams “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams” (“Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes”). Shawn and Rudy were both big dreamers who were determined to make their dream come true. Shawn Grim was a man living in the Appalachian mountains while Rudy was living in Illinois. Shawn Grim and Rudy Ruettiger were two young men trying to achieve their dreams to go to college and play football but each on their own journey in different ways. Shawn and Rudy both had dreams to go to…

Proclamation reestablished the prior promises made in the Treaty of Easton, which “formally prohibiting white settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains” (Anderson 240). However, this Proclamation only agitated the colonists who were eager to expand westward and many colonial militias were promised land grants for their service in the Seven Years War west of the Appalachian Mountains. Moreover, the French and Indian War was…

acoustic bass, jaw harp, and the spoons. During the time as country music was just beginning to be created immigrants were coming to the North American continent. Over nearly three centuries, the Maritime Provinces, the South and the Southern Appalachian Mountains gradually…

Robert La Salle, a French fur trader, had in 1682 claimed all lands west of the Appalachian mountains to belong to France, with the knowledge that “Illinois are lands to which one has only to put the plow.” The lands of the Midwest were extremely virtuous, so LaSalle claimed them for France. This subsequently left colonial America, a fast-growing…