Kentucky's Road to Statehood

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harrison, Lowell H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Statehood (American politics)
Politics and government.
Constitutional history.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Statehood (Politique americaine) > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Histoire constitutionnelle > Kentucky.
Statehood (American politics) > History > 18th century.
Constitutional history > Kentucky.
Kentucky.
Kentucky > Politics and government > To 1792.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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