JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONIAN AMERICA
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They provided natural barriers from the threat of European invasion.
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They provided more than one path, so that none of the paths were too crowded.
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They helped settlers get past the Appalachian Mountains, which were a barrier.
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They provided easy ways to travel, where weather, wild animals, and other dangers were not as bad as other paths.
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Detailed explanation-1: -8.28 How did geographic features like the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers, the Cumberland Gap, and the Wilderness Road contribute to the exploration and settling of new areas in Tennessee and other states? They provided natural barriers from the threat of European invasion.
Detailed explanation-2: -The path was used by a team of frontiersmen led by Daniel Boone, making it accessible to pioneers who used it to journey into the western frontiers of Kentucky and Tennessee.
Detailed explanation-3: -For early settlers and pioneers the Cumberland Gap was a gateway that led through the southern Appalachian Mountains into the great wilderness of Kentucky.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Gap was used for commerce by 1800. Kentuckians drove long lines of horses and cattle through the Gap to the markets in the east.
Detailed explanation-5: -One of the nation’s most historic routes, the Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail was blazed by the legendary frontiersman in 1775 from the Long Island of the Holston at what is now Kingsport TN, through the Cumberland Gap of Virginia into Kentucky. It would become the route for thousands of settlers to the western frontier.