![]() The characters involved, including the Rev Manasseh Cutler (among the first and most successful lobbyists as well as a noted divine) Revolutionary war general Rufus Putnam and the Irish-born Harman Blennerhasset, who schemed with former vice-president Aaron Burr to split the republic, hold the reader’s interest.Įqually, the settlement of the Northwest defined several important themes in American history. ![]() ![]() (Daniel Boone’s first emigrants to Kentucky left in 1773 but did so illegally, thanks to the Proclamation of 1763 limiting settlement to east of the Appalachian mountains.) McCullough offers a tantalizing glimpse of a future more defined by communitarianism than individualism Ohio has always been a pivotal state and the founding of Marietta marks the beginning of organized settlement in the successive western frontiers. Those first settlers were the “foremost pioneers” in both the literal and figurative sense, facing hard work clearing land for agriculture, the threats of disease and war with Native Americans, among other dangers. ![]() David McCullough puts the story much earlier, with the founding of what became the state of Ohio, and ends it during the civil war.Īt the Treaty of Paris in 1783, ending the American revolution, the Americans led by future president John Adams insisted on the cession of the lands north-west of the Ohio River to the Mississippi, the “Northwest Territory”. ![]()
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