USA HISTORY

SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732

THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This was a name for the area beyond or “in back of” the area settled by Europeans
A
the back hills
B
the backwoods
C
the backcountry
D
the backdoor
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Sometimes also referred to as upcountry, the region called back country designated the lands that lie west of the Atlantic coastal areas where the Europeans first settled.

Detailed explanation-2: -Backcountry Settlers The first Europeans in the Back-country made a living by trading with the Native Americans. Backcountry settlers paid for goods with deerskins. A unit of value was one buckskin or, for short, a “buck.” Farmers soon followed the traders into the region, but they had to be cautious.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first white Americans to move west were the mountain men, who went to the Rockies to hunt beaver, bear and elk in the 1820s and 1830s. Then, in 1841, a wagon train pioneered the 3, 200km-long Oregon Trail to the woodland areas of the north-west coast of America.

Detailed explanation-4: -Some cultural characteristics of Backcountry settlers were Scottish and Irish music that slowly changed into the Bluegrass and American Country Music. Many sports that are now part of track and field competitions came from the Scots-Irish.

Detailed explanation-5: -For example, the frontier between the Eastern United States and the Old West in the 1800s was an area where European American settlements gradually thinned out and gave way to Native American settlements or uninhabited land.

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