History of the United States . est. By the opening years ofthe nineteenth century half a millionpeople had settled along the watercourses and on the fertile plains beyondthe Alleghanies. There were at this time two Stateswest of the Alleghanies and south of the Territorial Ohio (KcntUCky and Ten-development nessee), and one territorialgovernment (Mississippi) formed in1798 out of the region west of Georgia,and largely out of territory claimedby that State. To the north of theOhio there were but Iavo territorialgovernments. Both were sparsely set-tled. One covered the present State ofOhio, and
History of the United States . est. By the opening years ofthe nineteenth century half a millionpeople had settled along the watercourses and on the fertile plains beyondthe Alleghanies. There were at this time two Stateswest of the Alleghanies and south of the Territorial Ohio (KcntUCky and Ten-development nessee), and one territorialgovernment (Mississippi) formed in1798 out of the region west of Georgia,and largely out of territory claimedby that State. To the north of theOhio there were but Iavo territorialgovernments. Both were sparsely set-tled. One covered the present State ofOhio, and the other, called Indiana,embraced the remainder of the north-west territory secured by the expedition of George Rogers methods and implements of all kinds were stillcrude and clumsy, but American inventive genius was no longerfettered by the former restrictions of the mother coun- inventionstry on manufactures. The era of great inventions and mentsdiscovery had begun. Washington had given great attention to. DANIEL BOONE Born Bucks Co.,Pa .Feb. 11, his father to NorthCarolina in the early fifties, becamea noted frontiersman and Indianfighter, chiefly in Kentucky, al-though advancing civilization andhis own failure to secure titles toland led him to cross the Missis-sippi. Died 1S20. 176 ADMINISTRATION OF JOHN ADAMS books and theories on agriculture. He had encouraged by sym-Rumseys pathy and interest, if somewhat frugally in purse, the first steam- \,„ „ ^ -r. i t^ boat efforts of James Rumsey, who on the Potomac at Shep- herdstown, Virginia (West Virginia), constructed the first boatpropelled by steam (1787).^ Rumseys experiments in steam navigation were almost simul-taneous with those of John Fitch on the Delaware and WilliamLongstreet in Georgia, both of whom propelled vessels by steamFulton, the powcr. It remained, however, for Robert Fulton, ofsfeamboat Pennsylvania, to construct the steamboat that estab-navigation jighed itsclf for
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