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- The Mosopelea, or Ofo (also Ofogoula), were a Siouan -speaking Native American people who historically lived near the upper Ohio River. In reaction to Iroquois Confederacy invasions to take control of hunting grounds in the late 17th century, they moved south to the lower Mississippi River.
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By 1820, there were eight: Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. The population of these eight "western" states had grown from 386,000 persons in 1800 to 2,216,000 in 1820. Mississippi was a product of this Great Migration.
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Spain, the last European power to control the region, signed the Treaty of San Lorenzo(Pinckney’s Treaty) in 1795 in which it recognized the 31st parallel as the boundary between Spanish Florida and the United States. This compact finally cleared the way for American settlement north of that line after years of disagreement. Spanish officials had s...
Less than a month later, on April 7, 1798, Congress created the Mississippi Territory. The territory’s original boundaries consisted of the region bounded by the Mississippi and Chattahoochee rivers in the west and east, the 31st parallel in the south, and the point where the Yazoo River emptied into the Mississippi River in the north. The territor...
Severe political factionalism came to characterize territorial politics and served to hamper the Mississippi Territory’s governors as they attempted to deal with these problems. The administration of Governor Winthrop Sargent, the first of the territory’s four governors, set the tone for the contentious political environment in which the territoria...
The residents of the Mississippi Territory were primarily former British or Spanish citizens or natives of other parts of the United States who had migrated to the region in pursuit of land and opportunity. This great migrationoccurred in two distinct waves. The first wave occurred between 1798 and 1812 when the Territory’s population increased fro...
Whether they lived in a city or in the countryside, the lives of most residents of the Mississippi Territory revolved around agriculture. Cotton became by far the most profitable and important crop. Much of the land in the Mississippi Territory was ideally suited for its production, and thousands of settlers came to the region to take advantage of ...
No other event affected the development of the region more than the Creek War. The war began as a civil war within the Creek nation over the issue of assimilation into American civilization versus retaining traditional Creek culture. Fighting between American troops and Red Stick Creeks, who opposed the increasing American influence in the area and...
Arguments over whether the Mississippi Territory would enter the union as one state or two had begun almost immediately after its organization in 1798. Aware of the economic and political dominance of their portion of the territory, many western residents, specifically those in the Natchez District, favored admission as a single state so that they ...
Mississippi Territorial delegate to Congress William Lattimore was already working towards statehood when the convention’s resolution arrived in Washington, D.C. Finding it impossible to follow the contradictory opinions of all of the territory’s citizens, he decided to request division in large part because he knew that southern senators would wel...
The Ohio Country, ( Ohio Territory, [a] Ohio Valley [b]) was a name used for a loosely defined region of colonial North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and south of Lake Erie . Control of the territory and the region's fur trade was disputed in the 17th century by the Iroquois, Huron, Algonquin, other Native American tribes, and France.
Even Washington's will showed his concern for the West. That document records that Washington acquired 9,744 acres on the Ohio River and owned another 23,341 acres on the Great Kanhawa, with an additional 234 acres in Pennsylvania near Great Meadows, 3,051 acres in the northwestern territory, and 5,000 acres in Kentucky.
Jul 15, 2022 · The French first explored the territory for its potential in the fur trade and were followed by English colonists who formed the Ohio Land Company to speculate for settlement there. Wealthy Virginians, including members of the Lee and Washington clans, lost potential profits when the Proclamation Line of 1763 forbid permanent settlement west of ...
May 10, 2022 · Transcript . An Ordinance for the government of the Territory of the United States northwest of the River Ohio. Section 1. Be it ordained by the United States in Congress assembled, That the said territory, for the purposes of temporary government, be one district, subject, however, to be divided into two districts, as future circumstances may, in the opinion of Congress, make it expedient.
The Northwest Territory included all the then-owned land of the United States west of Pennsylvania, east of the Mississippi River, and northwest of the Ohio River. It incorporated most of the former Ohio Country except a portion in western Pennsylvania, and eastern Illinois Country .
