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Westward migration was an essential part of the republican project, he argued, and it was Americans'
"manifest destiny," to carry the "great experiment of liberty" to the edge of the continent: to "overspread
and to possess the whole of the [land] which Providence has given us," O'Sullivan wrote. The survival of
American freedom depended on iti

Chapter 18 Chapter 18 --
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Meanwhile, the question of whether ornot slavery would be allowed in the new western states
shadowed every conversation about the frontier. In 1820, the Missouri Compromise had attempted to
resolve this question: It had admitted Missouri to the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state,
preserving the fragile balance in Congress. More important, it had stipulated that in the future, slavery
would be prohibited north of the southern boundary of Missouri (the 3630' parallel) in the rest of the
Louisiana Purchase.

Perhaps that was what inspired Grandpa to move to Missouri?

- -- - Chapter 19 Chapter 19 -- Cincinnati Ohio HISTORY
Chapter 19 Chapter 19 --

Matthias Denman was one of the founders of the settlement that became Cincinnati,
Ohio.Matthias Denman was born in 1760 in New Jersey. In 1788, he purchased eight hundred acres of
land with Israel Ludlow and Robert Patterson from John Cleves Symmes. The land was located on the
northern bank of the Ohio River opposite the mouth of the Licking River in Kentucky. Symmes had
purchased two million acres of land from the
Confederation Congress in 1787 and now hoped to
become rich by selling parts of the Symmes Purchase to
others. Denman provided the necessary cash; Patterson
found settlers; and Ludlow surveyed the land to make
sales and established a town. By early January 1789,
Ludlow had platted the town, dividing up into two types of
lots. Near the town's center, lots were one-half acre.
Outlying lots were four acres. Ludlow, Denman, and
Patterson provided the first thirty settlers with two free
lots, one of each type. The three men named the town
Losantiville. The Northwest Territory's governor, Arthur St.
Clair renamed the town Cincinnati, in honor of the Society
of the Cincinnati.
In 1804, Denman moved to Licking County, Ohio, and settled near the town of Hanover. Denman
and his sons became famous for their great strength. On one occasion, two sons supposedly chopped two
hundred fence rails apiece in just a few hours. Most men reportedly were fortunate to split one hundred
fence rails in an entire day.Denman died in 1838.

Tennessee General, David Ziegler succeeded General St Clair in command at Fort Washington,
after the conclusion of the Northwest Indian Wars and removal of Native Americans to the west, he was
elected in 1802 as the mayor of Cincinnati in 1802. The introduction of steamboats on the Ohio River in
1811 opened up its trade to more rapid shipping, and the city established commercial ties with St. Louis,
Missouri and especially New Orleans.

- -- - Chapter 20 Chapter 20 -- 13. Westward Expansion and Slavery
Chapter 20 Chapter 20 --
Meanwhile, the question of whether or not slavery would be allowed nithe new westernstates
shadowed every conversation about the frontier. In 1820, the Missouri Compromise had attempted to
resolve this question: It had admitted Missouri to the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state,
preserving the fragile balance in Congress. More important, it had stipulated that in the future, slavery

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