The battle of Lexington and Concord
The Democratic Republican Party was founded based on the ideas of the Anti-Federalists, who were opposed to the ratification of the Constitution and were in favor of states' rights over federal rights.
As Elizabeth is located in the Atlantic Ocean, you would have to start there. You travel down around Florida to New Orleans to then take the Mississippi River. As you travel north, you go west when you get to St. Louis, along the Missouri River.
The Yellowstone river joins the Missouri river just across the North Dakota state line.
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin.