David Crockett's Life And Work

Every state has a person that state labels as a hero. For Tennessee, that person is David Crockett. The world knows him as Davy Crockett the hero of the Alamo. But what about his life before that deathly battle? Throughout his life, Crockett was a simple person. He was not educated beyond writing a few words but that did not matter to him. The world is always given this picture of a massive man who could “kill him a ba’r when he was only three,” but this is not true. Granted he did achieve many great

chiefly as a hunter and a soldier, Crockett also worked for land for settlers, relief for people in debt, and an expanded banking system for Tennessee. Early life David "Davy" Crockett, the son of John and Rebecca Crockett, was born on August 17, 1786, in East Tennessee. He was the fifth of nine children. Crockett's father put him to work driving cattle to Virginia when he was twelve years old. After running away from home to escape a beating from his father, Crockett traveled throughout Virginia

Keren Lee Mr. Lewis AP US History 1 2 December 2014 The Battle of the Alamo The Battle of the Alamo was a devastating battle between the Texan and Mexican Army that occurred in the midst of the Texas Revolution and had an everlasting effect on the country and then state of Texas. The Alamo wasn’t built with the intention of being a fort. The Event- The Alamo In the early 1700s the Spanish set up a mission in Texas to house local Native Americans and convert individuals to Catholicism. The mission

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