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  1. Blacks vote for the first time in the South
    date August 1, 1867map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    While the process of Reconstruction continued until 1868 for many of the rebel states, Tennessee was readmitted into the United States in 1866. Thus, Tennessee was the only one of the Confederate states not affected by the highly contentious sections of the Reconstruction Acts, which placed the states under military authority. As a consequence, the state would be one of the first to fully understand...

  2. The Effects of Fertile Land in the Mississippi Delta
    date 1817 to 1820map INDIAN LANDS, Mississippitags Agriculture, Economy, Race-Relations, Slavery

    In a letter received by James Ure, John Bisland, a long time friend was intent on convincing him to move to Mississippi and invest in the cotton industry because of how easy it [was] to make money here. I bought 100 acres of land which lay contiguous to my estate [and] paid 600 dollars he explained and was able to make about 500 dollars by only planting cotton on seventeen acres. Cotton was seen as...

  3. The Presence of Indians in a Search for New Land
    date 1818 to 1830map INDIAN LANDS, Tennesseetags Native-Americans, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    A large party of Seminole Indians formed an ambush on the Appalachicola river, attacked one of our boats ascending near the shore, and killed, wounded, and took the greater part of the detachment, consisting of forty men stated a military correspondence in a Tennessee newspaper. Reports of Indian attacks were common around this time of early settlement and posed as a threat not only to the military...

  4. Methods of Shipment and Transportation throughout the South
    date November 21, 1825map ADAMS, Mississippitags Migration/Transportation

    The country is new, timber plenty, cheep, convenient; and consequentially we have, on good terms, the best materials for building bridges and causeways stated the author of a Mississippi newspaper article. People began settling throughout the east coast, transforming transportation into an extremely important part of life. Consequently, as the economy began to bloom, items needed to be brought to different...