1. 1700’s Appalachia What to know for tomorrow!

2. Quick Review  “Appalachia” from where?  From where did settlers come?

3. Kentucky in the 1700’s  1739: Discovery of a mastadon graveyard by French explorer de Longueuil

4. KY—the “First West”  First area to be settled outside of the 13 colonies  More 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 !

5. 1750’s  Thomas Walker  Christopher Gist  French and Indian War  Impact on KY settlement: secured Ohio River as a major entryway for waves of settlers

6. Walker

7. Gist’s voyages

9. 1760’s  Proclamation of 1763  Boone’s first exploration into KY  A “new found Paradise”  First roads? buffalo traces

10. 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

11.  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?....

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

13. 1776  Settlers send Rep’s (George Rogers Clark) to petition VA to invalidate Henderson’s claim.  Henderson petitions Congress to make Transylvania the 14 th colony.  VA assembly invalidates Henderson’s claim. KY becomes VA land.

15. Revolutionary War  Effect on KY:  British recruits Native Americans to harass the frontier settlements.

16. 1778  Shawnee siege of Boonesborough

17. 1780’s  VA divided KY county into 3 counties: Fayette, Jefferson, Lincoln  (map)  1782-83 Battle of Blue Licks  (map)  1784: ten state conventions to determine statehood  Why did they want to separate?  (think geography!)

21. 1790’s  1792: Statehood (#15)  (takes nearly 8 years to meet VA’s demands and draft a constitution)  Question of slavery  Electoral college at first; discarded in 1799

22.  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:Northwest Indian ConfederationOhio  1795: Treaty of Greenville  1796: Wilderness Rd opens for wagons

23. POPULATION GROWTH  1792: 100,000  1800: 220,000  1810: 406,000  What had happened in 1803?

24.  1798: State legislature passes KY Resolutions opposing Alien and Sedition Acts  Nullification  States rights