1. The Backcountry
Describe the geography of the backcountry. What kind of people lived in this region and what did it take to survive here?

2. The Geography of the Region
Located in or near the Appalachian Mountains, the backcountry was characterized by dense forests, Native Americans, and rich natural resources.
The Backcountry began at the fall line, or the area where waterfalls and high elevation prevent large boats and other forms of travel from moving upriver.
Beyond the fall line is the piedmont. The piedmont is a broad plateau that gradually leads up to the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains of the Appalachians.

5. Backcountry Settlers
The first white men into the Backcountry were either hunters, explorers or traders.
Farmers and families soon followed these people into the region, carving a life out of the vast wilderness. They quickly learned to depend on themselves.

6. The men, women, and children that moved into and lived in the Backcountry were self-sufficient and resolute, depending upon themselves for their livelihood and well-being.

7. The Log Cabin
The log cabin was a very common sight in the Backcountry and on the frontier. Crude but simple in design, there was no certain design for a cabin. As time and generations passed, the cabin, which usually started as one-room, grew and improved.

10. The Scots-Irish
This group of settlers came from the borderlands of Scotland and England. Most of them had lived for a time in northern Ireland and were discriminated against by the English. As a result, and by widespread famine in Europe, the Scots-Irish came to America by the thousands.

11. Clans – Large groups of families that stay together in a particular place or region.
Many of the Scots-Irish settlers continued to live with their respective clans in the Backcountry.

12. Those settlers that poured into the Backcountry started a westward movement that could play a critical role in American History. This gradual movement, however, created numerous conflicts with the Native American and French fur traders.

14. Legend of the Backwoods - Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone was an American pioneer and hunter whose life and exploits made him a legend and folk hero on the American frontier.
Boone was widely-known during his own lifetime as he served as a soldier during the French & Indian and Revolutionary War, a longhunter, one of the first English-speaking explorers east of the Appalachian Mountains, and the founder of Boonesborough, Kentucky.

15. Boone’s adventures, real and legendary, were influential in creating the epitome of the Western hero in American folklore and history.
As a youth, the Boone family moved from Pennsylvania to the banks of the Yadkin River in North Carolina.

16. Daniel Boone Segment

18. Describe the geography of the Backcountry.
Explain what attracted settlers to this region.
Describe the relationships between the settlers and the Native Americans here.
Examine why the Scots-Irish were settled in the Backcountry in such large numbers.

19. Bibliography