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• Directory:Indiana
  In 1800 the Indiana Territory was created. Several Indian tribes joined together under chief Tecumseh to fight the new settlers and s ...once occupied by paleoindians 10-12 thousand years ago. Historic American Indian tribes also lived on this land, inspiring the state's name - Indiana, the l
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• Directory:Louisiana
  ...na. Tribes of the Muskhogean language family occupied the east-central and south-east region, Tunican tribes lived along the coast and in the northeast, and ...oring the southeastern United States. Each year the Mississippi, an Ojibwa Indian word meaning "big river" carries 400,000,000 tons of sediment into the Gulf
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• Directory:Mississippi
  ...s defeated the French in northeast Mississippi. This led to the French and Indian War (1754-1763). The Treaty of Paris, signed after the war, gave England al Following the French and Indian War, which ended in 1763, France ceded its possessions in the lower Mississ
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• Directory:Connecticut
  ...present-day Hartford, but soon lost control to English Puritans migrating south from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. ...n at Wethersfield a settlement was made. This settlement is about 10 miles south, or closer to the coast, than Windsor had been. Since Windsor was just a tr
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• Directory:Iowa
  ...arly European explorers first saw the land of Iowa in the late 1600s, many Indian groups lived or hunted there. The Iowa, Miami, Ottawa, and Sioux tribes liv ...daries included all of present-day Iowa, Minnesota, and parts of North and South Dakota. After much debate on its boundaries, Iowa became the 29th state on
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• Directory:Minnesota
  ...the region and France continued fur trading. At the end of the French and Indian War in 1763, Great Britain wins claim to what is now eastern North America ...r lands east of the Red River, Lake Traverse, and the Big Dakota River and south of a boundary line between the Dakota and Chippewa in 1825. In return the D
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• Directory:Maine
  ...rished and hunted in Maine long before the coming of the Micmac and Abnaki Indian nations. Of Maine's two earliest Indian nations, the Micmacs of eastern Maine and New Brunswick were largely a warl
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• Directory:North Dakota
  ...the Dakota Territory in 1861. It was set off from [[Directory:South Dakota|South Dakota]] when statehood was achieved. Bismarck is the capital and Fargo the ...d. The territory included lands that would eventually became North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming.
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• Directory:Australia
  | bgcolor="#ffffff" | Oceania, continent between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean | bgcolor="#ffffff" | generally arid to semiarid; temperate in south and east; tropical in north
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• Directory:New Mexico
  ...Kansas, descended the walls of the Grand Canyon, and visited all the major Indian villages in the region. ...om Santa Cruz de la Cañada (near Española) to Socorro and driving the rest south to El Paso del Norte (El Paso).
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• Directory:Malaysia
  ...alist culture based on a vibrant and interesting fusion of Malay, Chinese, Indian and indigenous cultures and customs. Malaysia's love of Western-style indus
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• Directory:Vermont
  ...l de Champlain, who, after beginning the colonization of Quebec, journeyed south with a Huron war party in 1609 to the beautiful lake to which he gave his n ...rmont be referred to the crown. The outbreak of the last of the French and Indian Wars in 1754 briefly suspended interest in the area, but after the British
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• Directory:Tennessee
  ...anklin (1784-1788) formed the basis for the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio (1790) and the later state of Tennessee. Nashville is the ...e area, which in any event was lost (1763) by the French in the French and Indian Wars.
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• December 20
  ...been getting lower as its direct rays have been gradually migrating to the south. Technically, after the exact moment the winter solstice <strong>...</stron ...ite &ldquo;D&rdquo; on it. All around the Simeon Career Academy gym on the South Side here, cameras flashed and TV cameras rolled as the country learned tha
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• Directory:Kansas
  ...traveler to Kansas, the Native Americans were the first inhabitants. Eight Indian Tribes lived in Kansas before the coming of the white man. They included th ...excluding the area of Kansas. In 1825, the federal government made Kansas Indian territory. From 1825 to 1840, nearly 30 tribes gave up land and moved to th
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• Directory:Montana
  Before the white settlers arrived, two groups of Indian tribes lived in the region that is now Montana. The Arapaho, Assiniboine, A A large number of early prospectors came from the South, particularly from Confederate Army units that broke up in the Civil War (1
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• Directory:Andrew Jackson
  ...the area. Jackson himself claimed to have been born in a cabin just inside South Carolina.<ref>{{cite web ...s about Jackson's birthplace went far beyond the dispute between North and South Carolina. Because his origins were humble and obscure compared to those of
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• Directory:Missouri
  Although not involved in the last conflict (1754–63) of the French and Indian Wars, Missouri was affected by the French defeat when, in 1762, France secr ...and trade on the Mississippi, and settlement progressed. Planters from the South had introduced slavery into the territory, but their plantations were restr
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• Directory:Kentucky
  ...ploration was interrupted by the last conflict (1754-63) of the French and Indian Wars between the French and British for control of North America, and Ponti ...quietly in the 1840s, was converted into a huge slave market for the lower South.
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• Directory:North Carolina
  ...cts--Berkley, Carteret, and Shaftesbury--but as the colony expanded to the south and west new precincts were created. ...unterparts. For a twenty-year period, 1692-1712, the colonies of North and South Carolina existed as one unit of government. Although North Carolina still h
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