While Tecumseh raged against white intrusion and the Creeks debated war, settlers continued to pour into the Mississippi Territory. What drove so many people to continue to risk the perils of travel to this volatile region? Commercial opportunity. In the first two decades after the Constitution’s ratification, the population of the seaboard states was growing at a ponderous rate. The best land was long since settled, forcing those who hoped to buy choice, inexpensive land to consider the trans-Appalachian West.
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Becoming Alabama:
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