Southern Expansion to 1820

1. Early Settlements in West--Importance of Speculators
   1. Upper East Tennessee--The Watauga Association (1772-1773)
   2. Kentucky
      1. The Daniel Boone Myth
      2. A Proprietary Land Scheme--Richard Henderson and the Transylvania Land Company (1774)
   3. Middle Tennessee--James Robertson, Henderson, and Nashville (1779-1780)
   4. The "State of Franklin" (1784)--John Sevier and William Blount
   5. The Yazoo Land Frauds
2. Commercialism and Its Consequences
   1. The Issue of the Mississippi River and New Orleans
      1. Importance to Southwestern Trade
      2. Southwestern Disaffection from American Government--Spanish Competition for Settler Loyalty--James Wilkinson and Dual Loyalties
      3. Stabilization
         1. The Constitution and a Stronger Union
         2. Settlement With the Spanish--Pinckney's Treaty (1795)
         3. The Louisiana Purchase (1803)
            1. As Final Settlement of River Trade Issue
            2. A New Kind of "South"--Louisiana
      4. After Louisiana--The Southwest as Expansionist Playground
         1. The "Burr Plot" (1804-1806)--Wilkinson Again
         2. West Florida--The "Florida Parishes" (annexed 1810)
         3. Mobile (annexed 1813)--Wilkinson Yet Again
         4. The "Five Civilized Tribes"
            1. The Process of Expulsion
            2. The Creek War and Horseshoe Bend (1814)--Andrew Jackson
         5. East Florida (1818-1819)--Andrew Jackson Again
   2. A New Plantation Frontier--Cotton