Kentucky's Road to Statehood / Lowell H. Harrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrison, Lowell H. (Lowell Hayes), 1922-2011.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Statehood (American politics)--History--18th century.

Statehood (American politics).

Constitutional history--Kentucky.

Constitutional history.

Kentucky--Politics and government--To 1792.

Kentucky.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1992.

Language Note:

English

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

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813194004

0813194008

9780813159768

0813159768

OCLC:

645810763