For control of the major cities in the southwestern Levant.
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Colonists avoided the rugged, difficult Cumberland Gap.
The Cumberland Gap was long used by Native Americans, was brought to the attention of settlers in 1750 by Thomas Walker, a Virginia physician and explorer. The path was used by a team of frontiersmen led by Daniel Boone, making it accessible to pioneers who used it to journey into the western frontiers of Kentucky and Tennessee. It was very hard for colonists to go through mountains. The Indian Americans were the ones who discovered it.
During the eve of elections in 1896 the democrats had William Jennings Bryan as the party nominee for the president while the republicans nominated William McKinley a former governor and the populists endorsed Bryan. William McKinley was elected as the president of the United States in the elections (1896) defeating the joint democratic and populist nominee Jennings Bryan and other minor- parties candidates. His victory brought in a period of dominance by the republican party.
The indigenous Aborigines have recently received an apology from the "Australian" government, since years of colonization led to great human abuses against the native people.
Was African American. (I think )
