CAS HI 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Whiskey Rebellion, Stampede, Mixed Group
5 May 2019
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Louisiana purchase - 1803, purchased by jefferson against everything he had ever said (small government), at that moment it became a human avalanche and a tidal wave of movement, people come pouring over the appalachians a. ) People came over the mountains in droves, american frontiersmen were described as bandits and vandals, by 1805 americans were sprawling out. iii. ) ii. ) Over 20,000 people crossed the cumberland gap into tennessee in one summer. By 1812, ohio had a quarter of a million people and would have half a million by 1820. By 1815 there were over a million people of european descent west of the appalachian. There was a burning desire in so many for their own piece of land, fertile land was selling for an acre. Many towns out west now look like small. New england towns, a lot of migration comes from out south vii. )
