WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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The river was used for drinking water for the settlers.
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The river caused floods that irrigated the low farmland.
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The river prohibited early settlers from shipping goods.
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The river was used for travel to other close settlements.
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Detailed explanation-1: -During the 1600s and 1700s, the Ohio River served as the southern border of what later came to be called the Northwest Territory. In several treaties, the river also served as a dividing line between English settlements in Kentucky and Native American communities in the Ohio Country.
Detailed explanation-2: -As settlers pushed west across the Appalachian Mountains, many of these people used the Ohio River to transport their families and belongings westward. Several of the first permanent settlements by people from the newly formed United States were founded on the river’s banks.
Detailed explanation-3: -The earliest and heaviest settlement was in the southeastern part of the state, closest to Pennsylvania and Virginia-which provided most of the settlers. Early settlers were primarily of English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish descent. By the 1820’s, several thousand African Americans had settled in Ohio.
Detailed explanation-4: -The settling of Ohio began in 1788 with the arrival of 48 members of an expedition sponsored by the Ohio Company, who purchased more than one and a half million acres of the Northwest Territory from Congress. They chose what would become the city of Marietta, on the Ohio River, as their first settlement.