, but the action of both states was irregular. The other 11 states thatconstitutedthe Confederacy had all been carried out of the Union by conventions elected by the people—except Tennessee, where the full legislature acted. All except Tennessee had asserted their constitutional right to secede....
As a general rule, migrants from New England, New York, and Ohio settled in the townships of the northern tier of Indiana’s counties; people from the Middle Atlantic states and again from Ohio settled central Indiana; and people from the Southern states, especially Kentucky and Tennessee, ...
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In the far north the Tennessee valley contains dark loams and red clays that add vivid dashes of colour to the landscape when exposed. Farther south lie the varied soils of a mineral belt, and these are succeeded by the rich limestone and marl soils of the Black Belt. The soils along ...
Its neighbours are Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma to the west. The name Arkansas was used by the early French explorers to refer to the Quapaw people—a prominent indigenous group in the area—and ...
and yellow poplars are dominant. Much of this area is designated asnational forest. The region that extends from theTennesseeborder to the fall line has mostly oak and pine, with pines predominating in parts of the west. Below the fall line and outside the swamps,vaststands ofpine—longleaf...
on the east theInterior Low Plateausdominate centralKentuckyandTennessee. Except for two nearly circular patches of rich limestone country—the Nashville Basin of Tennessee and the KentuckyBluegrass region—most of both plateau regions consists of sandstone uplands, intricately dissected by streams. Local...
A brown loam belt of varying width extends from Tennessee to Louisiana. Most of southern Mississippi lies in the gently rolling Piney Woods. The coastal area, sometimes called the Coastal Meadows, or Terrace, borders the Gulf of Mexico. This region’s soil is sandy and not well suited to ...