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• Directory:Clarksville, Indiana
  ...nearby. The community was founded in 1784 by George Rogers Clark, American frontier leader. Government is by mayor and council. Population: 21,400.
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• Directory:Oklahoma
  === The Native American Heritage === Oklahoma's Native American population is the largest in the nation—252,420 at the 1990 census. Sever
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• Directory:William Henry Harrison
  | nationality=American ...ame for leading U.S forces against [[Native Americans in the United States|American Indian]]s at the [[Battle of Tippecanoe]] in 1811 and earning the [[nicknam
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• Directory:Idaho
  ...issouri Fur Company established a post near present-day Rexburg, the first American trading post established in the area. ...as the Hudson's Bay Company which, after 1824, came into competition with American mountain men also trapping in the area. By the 1840s the two groups had sev
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• Directory:Ohio
  === Prehistory to the American Revolution === ...n the extermination of the Erie. In addition to the Iroquois, other Native American tribes soon prominent in the region were the Miami, the Shawnee, and the Ot
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• Directory:South Dakota
  ...the northern Great Plains. Built in 1832 by John Jacob Astor's (1763-1848) American Fur Company as part of its expansion into the Upper Missouri region, the tr ...e focal point of an educational and cultural memorial to and for the North American Indian.
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• Directory:Tennessee
  ...of the Regulator movement. In 1772 these hardy settlers living beyond the frontier formed the Watauga Association, the first attempt at government in Tennesse === The American Revolution and Statehood ===
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• Directory:Oregon
  ...hn Meares and George Vancouver, made the coastal area known, but it was an American, Robert Gray, who first sailed up the Columbia River (1792), thus establish ...plagued by Native American uprisings, but by 1880 troubles with the Native American were over, and the next few decades brought increasing settlement and inter
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• Directory:Martin Van Buren
  | nationality=[[United States|American]] ...ish, Welsh, or Scottish descent. He was the first president to be born an American citizen<ref>http://www.hoover.nara.gov/exhibits/cottages/middleclass/vanbur
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• Directory:Alaska
  ...ful Aleut natives. Consequently, this led to the chartering of the Russian American Company in 1799. Under its first manager, Alexander Baranov, which was a pe ...lands, which started the One Thousand Mile War, the first battle fought on American soil since the Civil War.
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• Directory:Virginia
  ...hird of the total community). English retaliation effectively ended Native American resistance, except for a final uprising of the Confederacy in 1644. However ...to sanction a campaign against the Native Americans who had been attacking frontier settlements. These grievances brought the eruption of Bacon's Rebellion in
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• Directory:Millard Fillmore
  | nationality = [[United States|American]] ...Party|Anti-Masonic]], [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]], [[Know-Nothing|American]]
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• Directory:Illinois
  ...l 1778 when George Rogers Clark, a Revolutionary War hero, and his band of American colonists captured Fort Kaskaskia. The Illinois country became a possession In 1809, the Illinois Territory was created. The area figured prominently in frontier struggles during the Revolutionary War and in Indian wars during the early
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• Directory:North Dakota
  ...its post at Fort Union, which was established in 1828, John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company gradually gained monopolistic control for a time over the regio ...A treaty was signed in 1868. In 1876, after gold was discovered on Native American land in the Black Hills, the unwillingness of the whites to respect treaty
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• Directory:Arizona
  In 1912, Arizona, still a frontier territory, attained statehood. Its constitution created a storm, with such ...blican candidate for the U.S. presidency, was long the standard bearer for American conservatism. Democrat Stewart L. Udall served as secretary of the interior
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• Directory:Franklin Pierce
  ...]] &ndash; [[October 8]], [[1869]]) was an [[Politics of the United States|American politician]] and the fourteenth [[President of the United States]], serving ...[[United States Senate|Senate]]. Later, Pierce took part in the [[Mexican-American War]] and became a [[brigadier general]]. His private law practice in his h
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• Directory:Kentucky
  ...d British for control of North America, and Pontiac's Rebellion , a Native American uprising (1763-66). ...ich forbade settlement west of the Appalachians. Daniel Boone , the famous American frontiersman, first came to Kentucky in 1767; he returned in 1769 and spent
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• Directory:Andrew Jackson
  | nationality=American ...toughness, Jackson was the first President primarily associated with the [[frontier]], as he based his career in [[Tennessee]].
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• Directory:Kansas
  ...buffalo, raised corn, beans and squash. There were many reasons why Native American nations came to this land. Much like the Kansas we know today, they saw gre ...ght, reaching an apex in 1867 when nearly 130 settlers were killed. Native American-Settler skirmishes waned in the latter half of the 1860's.
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• Directory:George Washington
  | nationality= American ...ntinental Army]] to victory over the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] in the [[American Revolutionary War]] (1775&ndash;1783).
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