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Kentucky's Road to Statehood
On June 1,1792, Kentucky became the fifteenth state in the new nation and the first west of the Alleghenies. Lowell Harrison reviews the tangled and protracted process by which Virginia's westernmost territory achieved statehood. By the early 1780s, survival of the Kentucky settlements, so unce...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2015.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1. Stirrings of Discontent; 2. The Early Conventions; 3. A Spanish Conspiracy?; 4. The Later Conventions; 5. Writing the Constitution; 6. The Constitution Achieved; 7. Implementing the Constitution; Appendix A. The Formation of Counties, 1780-1792; Appendix B. Chronology: Major Events on the Road to Statehood; Appendix C. The Kentucky Constitution of 1792; Notes; Bibliographical Note; Index.