MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE RATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION AND THE NEW US GOVERNMENT
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helping to create the Wilderness Road
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Fighting the British in WWI
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Becoming a mormon missionary
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Helping to build the St. Lawrence Seaway
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1775, Daniel Boone blazed a trail for the Transylvania Company from Fort Chiswell in Virginia through the Cumberland Gap. It was later lengthened, following Indian trails, to reach the Falls of the Ohio at Louisville. The Wilderness Road was steep, rough and narrow, and could be traversed only on foot or horseback.
Detailed explanation-2: -Daniel Boone was an early American frontiersman who gained fame for his hunting and trailblazing expeditions through the Cumberland Gap, a natural pass through the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky.
Detailed explanation-3: -Daniel Boone and 35 axmen blazed a trail called the Wilderness Road from Virginia through the Cumberland Gap and into central Kentucky for the Transylvania Company.
Detailed explanation-4: -Daniel Boone was hired to lead an advance party to open a path from Cumberland Gap all the way to the south bank of the Kentucky River. The path would be known as the Wilderness Road.
Detailed explanation-5: -Known as the Wilderness Road, the trail would serve as the pathway to the western United States for some 300, 000 settlers over the next 35 years. Boone’s pioneering path led to the establishment of the first settlements in Kentucky–including Boonesboro–and to Kentucky’s admission to the Union as the 15th state in 1792.