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- The Mormon exodus of 1846-47 was a large migration of members of the Church of Latter Day Saints from their home in Illinois to Salt Lake Valley, Utah.
- The Mormon Trail extends from Nauvoo, Illinois, which was the principal settlement of the Latter-Day Saints from 1839 to 1846, to Salt Lake City, Utah, which was settled by Brigham Young and his followers beginning in 1847.
- Sidney Rigdon was the First Counselor in the LDS First Presidency, and as its spokesman, Rigdon preached several controversial sermons in Missouri, including the Salt Sermon and the July 4th Oration.
- In the spring of 1847, Young led the vanguard company to the Salt Lake Valley, which was then outside the boundaries of the United States and later became Utah.
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- Young led his followers along the Mormon Trail, a 1,300-mile route that Mormon pioneers traveled from Nauvoo, Illinois, to Salt Lake City, Utah.
- In the spring of 1847, Young led the vanguard company to the Salt Lake Valley, which was then outside the boundaries of the United States and which later became Utah.
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- The Oregon Trail was a 2,000-mile, historic east-west wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon and locations in between.
- Wagon trails were cleared increasingly further west, eventually reaching the Willamette Valley in Oregon.
- There were various offshoots in Missouri, Iowa, and the Nebraska Territory; the routes converged along the lower Platte River Valley near Fort Kearny, Nebraska Territory and led to rich farmlands west of the Rocky Mountains.
- The Overland Stage Company owned by Ben Holladay famously used the Overland Trail to run mail and passengers to Salt Lake City, Utah, via stagecoaches in the early 1860s.
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- The planned invasion had two strategic components: Burgoyne would lead the main force of roughly 8,000 men along Lake Champlain towards Albany, while a second column of approximately 2,000 men led by Lieutenant Colonel Barry St.
- Leger would move down the Mohawk River valley as a tactical diversion.
- In Burgoyne's view, control of the Lake Champlain-Lake George-Hudson River route from Canada to New York City would effectively isolate New England from the rest of the American colonies, deciding the war in favor of the British.
- Lawrence and crossed Lake Ontario, arriving at Oswego without incident.
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- The Ohio Country (sometimes called the Ohio Territory or Ohio Valley by the French) was the name used in the 18th century for the regions of North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and in the region of the upper Ohio River south of Lake Erie.
- A number of Senecas and other Iroquois also migrated to the Ohio Country, moving away from the French and British imperial rivalries south of Lake Ontario.
- This picture depicts the Battle of Jumonville Glen, which is considered by historians to be the opening battle of the French and Indian War in North America and the start of hostilities in the Ohio valley.
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- Increasing competition between Britain and France, especially in the Great Lakes and Ohio valley, was one of the primary origins of the war.
- In the Treaty of Paris ending the war,Britain gained all French territory east of the Mississippi River, including Quebec, the Great Lakes, and the Ohio River valley.
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- Using trading posts and forts, both the British and the French claimed the vast territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, known as the Ohio Country.
- The French claims resulted from La Salle's claiming the Mississippi River for France, whose drainage area includes the Ohio River Valley.
- The sole British successes in the early years of the war came in 1755, at the Battle of Lake George, which secured the Hudson Valley; and in the taking of Fort Beauséjour (which protected the Nova Scotia frontier).
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- Many in his own administration were opposed to these initiatives, and the more assertive human rights policy of the Carter years was blunted by the discord that ensued between, on one hand, Derian and State Department Policy Planning Director Anthony Lake, who endorsed human rights considerations as an enhancement of U.S. diplomatic effectiveness abroad, and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who held Cold War considerations as paramount.
- A key foreign policy issue Carter worked laboriously on was the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II), which reduced the number of nuclear arms produced and/or maintained by both the United States and the Soviet Union.
- President Jimmy Carter and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev sign the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II) treaty, June 18, 1979, in Vienna.
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- After the Seven Years' War, British troops proceeded to occupy the various forts in the Ohio Country and Great Lakes region that had been previously garrisoned by the French.
- The first group included the tribes of the Great Lakes region: the Ottawas, Ojibwas, Potawatomis, and Hurons.
- These people had migrated to the Ohio valley earlier in the century in order to escape British, French, and Iroquois domination elsewhere and did not have strong relations with the British or French.
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- The Adena were notable for their agricultural practices, pottery, artistic works, and extensive trading network, which supplied them with a variety of raw materials ranging from copper (from the Great Lakes) to shells (from the Gulf Coast).
- Adena sites are concentrated in a relatively small area: there are about 300 sites in the central Ohio Valley and perhaps another 200 scattered throughout Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
- Describe the mound building cultures of the Ohio and Mississippi River Valley and the functions of the mounds