Kentucky History

Jamestown, Virginia was the primary permanent English settlement in the New World and was founded by Captain John Smith. Tobacco was the main cash crop, and John Smith had to be strict to make sure people worked hard enough to get their food. It was a joint stock company where colonists had rights like Englishmen did.

Jamestown- In December of 1606 three ships were sent on a journey to Virginia to start founding a new settlement in North America. They named it Jamestown for their king James I. The settlement fort was pretty much complete on June 15. The settlement experienced drought, war, disease, and much more.

The New England colonies used to have a rocky soil so they couldn´t have a farm where they wanted to, on top of that there was a lot of hills so they only had small farms. The Middle Colonies used to grow a lot of grains such as corn, wheat and meat such as beef and pork. Their soil was the best one to farm. Southern colonies used to grew a lot of tobacco, rice and indigo. The Southern colonies used to have a rich soil so the people in the southern colonies could make a farm in most of the places that were

The Jamestown colony was located near present day James City County, Virginia. Jamestown was the first permanent settlement by the English in what is in current day known as the United States. The location of Jamestown was selected

The 1850s were a time of attempted compromise when compromise was no longer possible. The Union was becoming divided through many events in the time leading into the Civil War. The North and South had too many hostilities to account for. Socially, the North and the South could not stand what the other would do or say with anything. Politically, the government was completely divided and undecided. And economically, the South began to prosper as the North began to struggle. Thus, during the 1850s, socially, politically, and economically there was not any compromise that could fix the problems beginning to occur.

Post-Civil War North Carolina, as a part of the “New South”, was supposed to be an economically and morally prosperous state that was no longer reliant on slave labor. Unfortunately, the abolition of slavery did not abolish the misfortune of black and white North Carolinians alike before 1900. Racism was still very much alive, blacks did not enjoy the rights they supposedly acquired after the war, the same rich families from before the war were still rich, and the people that were poor before the war were still struggling.

James town was the first settlement in North America and was developed mainly to supply to the mother country with new goods. Being the first settlement James Town had challenges they had to overcome versus Massachusetts which was a town started by a religious group known as Puritans who had no obligation to England other than coming to North America to practice their religion freely.

Going into the 17th century, many territories started to join the United States of America. Indiana was the 19th state to be admitted into the union on December 11, 1816 and still exists today. The French first discovered Indiana in 1679, but later was taken over by George Rogers Clark who led the American army in the Revolutionary War. Indiana became a very agricultural state majoring in growing corn. With its ample history, Indiana has transformed from a dull state to a thriving state in the Mid-West.

Due to one of the railroad stops being in Oklahoma, that drove people to populate Oklahoma. When the mines were discovered, they were used for coal, which helped the small economy of the new state grow. Today, those mines possibly could be mined out for coal, or

The origin of the Chesapeake and the New England regions was English. But, they’re societies were entirely different. Both regions had different intentions on why they were going to settle in the New World. The regions had social, political, and economical differences, which led them to two different directions. The social differences between these two regions were evident as time went on.

Kentucky was on the home of various Native American peoples before the arrival of Daniel Boone and other European frontiersmen in 1769. Its name perhaps derives from an iroquis word for ¨prairie.” By 1792, when Kentucky was admitted as the 15th state of the union—the first west of the Appalachian Mountains—it had drawn nearly 73,000 settlers. By 1800 this number had grown to roughly 220,000 and included some 40,000 slaves.

Randolph County, also known as Piedmont Plateau, was created by an act of Alabama General Assembly on December, 18, 1832. The county is named for John Randolph, a former Virginia statesman. The county is named in Wedowee in 1834-35. The county encompasses 585 square miles. Randolph County had many popular towns which were, Rock Mills, Louina, Wadley, Wedowee, Graham, and a town that was taken that is now known as Clay Central. With Randolph County having gold, copper, Mica, tin, graphite, Kaolin, and Iron; Randolph County was one of the richest counties in state. The first white settlers noted that the county had an abundance of the “purest and coldest water in the world.” The county was developed for agriculture, specifically cotton plantations.

The States of Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin, and parts of Michigan and Minnesota were formed as the Indiana Territory in 1800. A water route via Lake Erie to eastern markets was opened in the 1840s when the Wabash

Tobacco existed in Kentucky long before the establishment of the commonwealth Kentucky. Native Americans; such as the Shawnee, utilized tobacco medicinally and ceremonially. European settlers brought it with them to central and, eventually, western Kentucky, and until the late 1920s, Kentucky produced more tobacco than any other state. Kentucky remained the largest burley and dark tobacco producer, and ranked second, in total pounds produced, to North Carolina.

Kansas has many state parks and the popular place is the monument rocks and the castle rocks. The monument rocks and the castle rocks have fossils in ancient chalks in plain western Kansas which is a spectacular landmark. The chalk was deposited during the Cretaceous period of geological history about 80 million years ago, when the central interior was covered by sea. The fossils were like shark teeth, fish bones, even dinosaur bones, and other sea creatures. The fossils in the chalk bed go to the Sternberg Museum in Hays.Michael J. Everhart is a shark hunter and he found a shark skull which was under sand and gravel The chalk was a good material for trapping and preserving