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Feb 26, 2023 · The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 forever forbade slavery north and west of the Ohio River. So the former slaves who came north with Lucas Sullivant in 1797 to found the frontier settlement of ...
Jun 2, 2020 · During the 1930s and 1940s, the seeds of the Mid-Century civil rights movement were planted. The NAACP, founded in 1909, began slowly moving through the courts, using test cases to break down the walls standing between black Americans and their freedom rights. This long-term strategy would eventually lead to the Brown v.
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- The Kickapoo Tribe*
- The Erie Tribe
- The Shawnee and Ohio Valley Tribes
The Kickapoo tribe branched out from a part of the Shawnee tribe, and linguists speculate that the word “Kickapoo” is a reinterpretation of the Shawnee word for “wanderers.” Speaking in a tonal language similar to Algonquian, the Kickapoo also used a distinct lingual code called “whistle speech” to communicate simple statements—today, considered a ...
The Erie tribe settled lakeside in Northern Ohio, giving way for European settlers to name Lake Erie after them. Erie tribal history is not well recorded, but their language bears distinct similarities to those of the Iroquois and Seneca tribes. Like other tribes in the area, they were known as an agrarian community and natural enemies to the Iroqu...
With noted ancestry from the Lenape (Delaware) tribe, the Shawnee were commonly known to migrate around Ohio at will. Archaeologists have also found evidence of villages in New York, Illinois and Georgia. In the mid-1600s, the Shawnee also had to travel due to pressure from the Iroquois and American settlers. With other Ohio Valley tribes in parts ...
Dec 14, 2019 · Slavery was abolished in Ohio in 1802 by the state's original constitution. But at the same time, Ohio, with slave-state Kentucky across the Ohio River, took the lead in aggressively.
May 28, 2018 · Travelling in wagons to Pittsburgh and then onwards by raft down the Ohio River, they intended to reach a pre-existing Welsh community in Cincinnati, 500 miles (800km) away. Exhausted, they spent...
The history of Ohio as a state began when the Northwest Territory was divided in 1800, ... As Northeastern states abolished slavery in the coming two generations, ...
Jun 17, 2021 · Rankin, an early Ohio abolitionist, Presbyterian minister and architect of Ripley's Underground Railroad, built his home in 1828. It became one of the first stops along the network of conductors ...
