1700’s AppalachiaWhat to know for tomorrow!

Quick Review “Appalachia” from where?

From where did settlers come?

Kentucky in the 1700’s1739: Discovery of a mastadon graveyard by French explorer de Longueuil

KY—the “First West”First area to be settled outside

of the 13 coloniesMore than a century to go a

few hundred miles inland from the Atlantic, but in another century, explorers and settlers would cover the entire continent!

1750’sThomas WalkerChristopher GistFrench and Indian War

Impact on KY settlement: secured Ohio River as a major entryway for waves of settlers

Walker

Gist’s voyages

1760’s Proclamation of 1763Boone’s first exploration into KY

A “new found Paradise”First roads? buffalo traces

1770’s 1773: Boone led settlers into KY but

forced to turn back by natives 1774: Lord Dunmore’s War

Shawnee did not sign a treaty in the ‘50’s with Virginia, so they began attacking frontier settlers. Governor Dunmore attacked Shawnee. (a distraction?)

Shawnee lost this war, ceding all claims south of Ohio River

1774-75:James Harrod begins first permanent Kentucky settlement

1775: Richard Henderson gathers Cherokee chiefs at Treaty of Sycamore Shoals

Purchases most of KY for $50,000 through Transylvania Land Company

Boone leads settlers through Cumberland Gap, establishes Boonesborough

Other settlers did NOT acknowledge Transylvania. Why?....

Henderson’s land scheme: to profit, have settlers pay taxes to him. Claiming it for British, not Virginia colony.Dissension amongst settlers

1776Settlers send Rep’s (George Rogers Clark) to petition VA to invalidate Henderson’s claim.

Henderson petitions Congress to make Transylvania the 14th colony.

VA assembly invalidates Henderson’s claim. KY becomes VA land.

Revolutionary WarEffect on KY:

British recruits Native Americans to harass the frontier settlements.

1778Shawnee siege of Boonesborough

1780’sVA divided KY county into 3

counties: Fayette, Jefferson, Lincoln (map)

1782-83 Battle of Blue Licks (map)

1784: ten state conventions to determine statehoodWhy did they want to separate?

(think geography!)

1790’s1792: Statehood (#15)

(takes nearly 8 years to meet VA’s demands and draft a constitution)

Question of slaveryElectoral college at first; discarded in 1799

1794: Battle of Fallen Timbers decisive victory over the 

Northwest Indian Confederation, ending two decades of border warfare and securing white settlement of the former Indian territory mainly in Ohio through the:

1795: Treaty of Greenville1796: Wilderness Rd opens for wagons

POPULATION GROWTH1792: 100,0001800: 220,0001810: 406,000

What had happened in 1803?

1798: State legislature passes KY Resolutions opposing Alien and Sedition ActsNullificationStates rights