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In the late 1940s Alston became involved in a mural project commissioned by Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company which asked the artists to create work involving African American contributions to the settling of California.
Instead of settling a financial dispute between American citizens and the Mexican government by force, Van Buren wanted to seek a diplomatic solution.
* France begins settling Acadia, first successful French North American colony.
The railroads ' sales of land-grant lots, and the transport provided for timber and crops, led to the rapid settling of the supposed " Great American Desert ".
Wilson was a self-made man who was orphaned in Nashville, Tennessee, came to Alta California as a fur trapper and adventurer during the American Indian Wars before marrying Ramona Yorba, the daughter of a California land baron, Bernardo Yorba, and made his fortune through the wedding dowry, receiving Rancho Jurupa, settling what would become California's San Gabriel Valley, after the Mexican American War.
Canada had very few potential settlers who were willing to move over 2, 500 miles to the Pacific Northwest, although several hundred ex-trappers, British and American, and their families did start settling in Oregon, Washington and California.
The sale of the railroad land grant lands and the transport provided for timber and crops led to the rapid settling of the " Great American Desert ".
Although Native American attacks were still a threat in the area, pioneers were already settling near the fort.
In American literature ( e. g. in The Great Gatsby ) moving West has sometimes symbolized gaining freedom, perhaps as an association with the settling of the Old West ( see also Manifest Destiny ).
Vickie Lynn Marshall ( née Hogan ) ( November 28, 1967 – February 8, 2007 ), aka Vickie Smith, before settling on Anna Nicole Smith as her moniker, was an American model, actress and television personality.
From New York Harris moved to the American Midwest, settling in the country's second largest city, Chicago.
He worked briefly as an American newspaper correspondent before settling down in England to seriously pursue the vocation of journalism.
After escaping, he returned to American territory, settling again in Chicago by 1816.
He grew up in Medfield, Massachusetts, later living in a number of major American cities before settling in Portland, Maine in 1979.
After the Civil War, the Cherokee Nation had to allow the Federal Government to relocate other Native American tribes to settle in the area known as the Cherokee Outlet, The Kansa ( Kaw ) arrived in June 1873, settling in what would become the northeastern part of Kay County.
Sixpence None the Richer ( also known as Sixpence ) is an American rock / pop band that formed in New Braunfels, Texas, eventually settling in Nashville, Tennessee.
The crop failures of the “ Year without a Summer ” may have helped shape the settling of the " American Heartland ", as many thousands of people ( particularly farm families who were wiped out by the event ) left New England for what is now western and central New York and the Upper Midwest ( then the Northwest Territory ) in search of a more hospitable climate, richer soil, and better growing conditions.
The Treaties of Portage des Sioux in 1815 were signed here ostensibly settling Native American and United States conflicts in the War of 1812.
The earliest records of individuals settling in the area date back to deeds dated in 1713, for properties located near a point where two Lenape Native American trails crossed at an area called Black River.
Dr. John McLoughlin, the chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Fur Company at Ft. Vancouver, tried to dissuade American pioneers from settling on the north side of the Columbia River.
After settling in San Francisco and other California cities, Chinese workers faced hostility from their American peers who felt threatened by the Chinese who worked for lower wages.
Among the world's strongest and most innovative maritime forces during the American Civil War, the Navy quickly shrank after the end of hostilities, as national energies were redirected toward settling the West and rebuilding the war-ravaged South.

settling and west
In 1838, a devastating fire gutted their small shop and soon thereafter David Brown moved west to Illinois, settling on a land grant in his declining years.
Many newly arrived immigrants and others moved west along the railway to the Prairie Provinces and British Columbia, sparsely settling Northern Ontario.
Coming from two directions, North ( via today's East Austria and Czech Republic ), settling in the area of today's Carinthia and west Styria and South ( via today's Slavonia ), settling in the area of today's central Slovenia.
Generally speaking, the Norwegians expanded to the north and west to places such as Ireland, Scotland, Iceland and Greenland ; the Danes to England and France, settling in the Danelaw ( northern / eastern England ) and Normandy ; and the Swedes to the east, founding the Kievan Rus, the original Russia.
In addition, the Danes and Norwegians moved west into the Atlantic Ocean, settling on Iceland, Greenland, and the Shetland Isles.
Many of the Huguenot descendants migrated west into the Piedmont and across the Appalachian Mountains and into the west, as did other European Americans, as well as south along the coast, with some ultimately settling in Texas.
In historic times, the Ojibwe / Chippewa moved west and south from the Great Lakes region, settling across present-day Minnesota.
A surprising number of those born in the United States but not in Minnesota ( 11, or 2. 25 % of the total population ) were born in North Dakota, indicating that at least some of the families in Badger Township had initially traveled further west before settling ( at least temporarily ) in Minnesota.
Travelers heading west often crossed the gap in the mountains here, some settling to farm land along the river.
It is thought some of the Iceni may have moved west into the Fens to avoid the Angles, who were migrating across the North Sea from Angeln ( modern Schleswig ) and settling what would become East Anglia.
Hence the beginnings of the neighborhood of the southern part of the 22nd Ward, which would become known as Hell's Kitchen, start in the mid-19th century, when immigrants from Ireland, most of whom were refugees from the Great Famine, began settling on the west side of Manhattan in shantytowns along the Hudson River.
Link Wray and his brother Vernon went west to Arizona early 1970s, settling in San Francisco several years later.
FitzOsbern was made Earl of Hereford and tasked with settling the area ; at the same time, several castles were founded in the west of the county, securing its border with Wales.
Selkirk had become interested in the concept of settling the area after reading Alexander Mackenzie's 1801 book on his adventures in what is today the west of Canada.
Twelve years later, this farm was destroyed by a storm, and Stewart decided to move west, settling near Killam, Alberta in 1905.
Symmes represented New Jersey in the Continental Congress ( 1785 – 1786 ), then, in 1788, moved to the west, settling in what later became North Bend, Ohio.
For if once you allow the clouds now gathering in the west to settle upon Greece, I fear exceedingly that the power of making peace or war, and in a word all these games which we are now playing against each other, will be so completely knocked out of the hands of us all, that we shall be praying heaven to grant us only this power of making war or peace with each other at our own will and pleasure, and of settling our own disputes.
It was from Ireland in about 960 AD that these Norsemen or Vikings first came to the west coast of Lancashire, first trading or raiding and then settling.
In 1833 Jones headed west to Texas, settling eventually in Brazoria.
The cadets moved several times more, eventually settling in Saint-Cyr, located west of Paris, in 1808.
The British ordered the existing settlers ( mostly French ) to leave or get special permission to stay, and prohibited British colonists from settling west of the Appalachians.
The government provided most with land, settling them in what became Upper Canada ( Ontario ) to the west, as well as Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to the east.

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