| Description |
1 online resource (218 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1. Stirrings of Discontent; 2. The Early Conventions; 3. A Spanish Conspiracy?; 4. The Later Conventions; 5. Writing the Constitution; 6. The Constitution Achieved; 7. Implementing the Constitution; Appendix A. The Formation of Counties, 1780-1792; Appendix B. Chronology: Major Events on the Road to Statehood; Appendix C. The Kentucky Constitution of 1792; Notes; Bibliographical Note; Index |
| Summary |
On June 1,1792, Kentucky became the fifteenth state in the new nation and the first west of the Alleghenies. Lowell Harrison reviews the tangled and protracted process by which Virginia's westernmost territory achieved statehood. By the early 1780s, survival of the Kentucky settlements, so uncertain only a few years earlier, was assured. The end of the American Revolution curtailed British support for Indian raids, and thousands of settlers sought a better life in the ""Eden of the West."" They swarmed through Cumberland Gap and down the Ohio River, cleared the land for crops, and established t |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Constitutional history -- Kentucky
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Statehood (American politics) -- History -- 18th century
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Constitutional history
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Politics and government
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Statehood (American politics)
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| SUBJECT |
Kentucky -- Politics and government -- To 1792.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85071974
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| Subject |
Kentucky
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813159768 |
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0813159768 |
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