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- The Wilderness Road was a westward route used by many immigrants that stretched from Virginia through the Appalachian mountains.
- The Wilderness Road refers to the primary route used by settlers for over fifty years to reach Kentucky from the eastern seaboard.
- By 1840, the Wilderness Road was largely abandoned, although modern highways still follow much of its original route.
- The Wilderness Road also served as the primary means of commercial transport for the early settlers in Kentucky.
- Course of the Wilderness Road, through Tennessee and Kentucky, by 1785.
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- For more than fifty years, European-American settlers used the Wilderness Road as the primary route to reach Kentucky from the eastern seaboard.
- Because the Appalachian Mountains formed a natural barrier and made passage to the West nearly impossible, Daniel Boone established the Wilderness Road in 1775, when he created a trail for the Transylvania Company from Virginia through central Kentucky.
- The Wilderness Road was steep and rough, and it only could be traversed on foot or horseback, making passage difficult.
- In the span of a few decades, more than 200,000 settlers and invaders traveled via the Wilderness Road.
- By 1840, the Wilderness Road was largely abandoned, although modern highways still follow much of its original route.
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- Though this Wilderness Road was steep and rough, and could only be traversed on foot or horseback, it became the primary route for thousands of settlers moving west at the turn of the century.
- In 1811, construction began on the National Road or Cumberland Road, the first major improved highway in the United States to be built by the federal government.
- Heading west from Cumberland on the Potomac River, this road crossed the Allegheny Mountains and southwestern Pennsylvania, reaching Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1818.
- Ease of travel on the National Road contributed to the rapid decline of the Wilderness Road.
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- It was largely the popularity of this type of bicycle at this time that precipitated the paving of roads.
- Modern participants frequent publicly owned natural resources such as national and state parks, wilderness areas, and commercial campgrounds.
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- In the nineteenth century, the construction of roads, rails, and canals dramatically improved national mobility.
- In eighteenth-century America, roads were privately built, and the government played little role in their construction.
- Early toll roads were constructed and owned by joint-stock companies that sold stock to raise construction capital.
- Following the report, work began on a National Road to connect the west to the eastern seaboard.
- In 1815, construction on the National Road (also known as the "Cumberland Road") began in Cumberland, Maryland; by 1818, the road had reached Wheeling, West Virginia (then part of Virginia).
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- Wilderness Church at Chancellorsville was the center of a stand made by Union General Schurz's division after Confederates under Stonewall Jackson made a surprise flank attack.
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- Lee surprised Grant by attacking the larger Union Army aggressively in the Battle of the Wilderness, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides.
- This map shows the Overland Campaign, from the Battle of the Wilderness to crossing the James River.
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- and As I Lay Dying, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn, the first issue of Life magazine, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie, F.
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- European economic growth and the Silk Road's decline, stimulated the creation of major commercial routes along the Mediterranean coast.
- Although the Mongols had threatened Europe with pillage and destruction, Mongol states also unified much of Eurasia and, from 1206 on, the Pax Mongolica allowed safe trade routes and communication lines stretching from the Middle East to China—known as the silk road .
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- All the provinces, and many towns as well, tried to foster economic growth by subsidizing projects that improved the infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, inns and ferries.
- The region bordered New France, and in the numerous wars going on at the time, the British poured money in to purchase supplies, build roads, and pay colonial soldiers.