USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Backcountry was a region in North America. The geographic term referred to the remote and undeveloped (by English standards) land west of the Appalachian border of the British Thirteen Colonies.

Detailed explanation-2: -Backcountry was the term used during the early settlement and colonial periods for the vast interior of North Carolina, located away from the coastline and including both the modern-day Piedmont and Mountain regions.

Detailed explanation-3: -To explore the governance, economy, and social structure created during the 17th Century within each of four colonial regions: the Chesapeake, Southern Colonies, the New England Colonies, and Middle Colonies.

Detailed explanation-4: -The western area of the colony, also called the backcountry, consisted mostly of poor farming settlers whose income and resources were dependent on the yield of their crops. The backcountry settlers mostly shared similar backgrounds and social levels.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.