In 1790, approximately 100,000 white settlers lived beyond the Appalachian Mountains. By 1818, the population west of the Appala
chians had climbed to two million. The growth of this region can in part be attributed to provisions in the Northwest Ordinance. How did each provision facilitate settlement of the western territory?
Related Entries: Cherokee Indians;Asheville; Regions by Ron Holland Reprinted with permission from the Tar Heel Junior Historian. Spring 1995. Tar Heel Junior Historian Association, NC Museum of History With some of the oldest and most complex geographical formations on earth, the Mountain Region of western North Carolina has many of the highest summits in eastern America.
France and England were the two countries who had land claims in Canada. The treaty ending the French Indian War, in 1763, relinquished France's land claims in Canada.
