... Formation of the Union The second volume of the EPOCHS OF AMERICAN HISTORY aims to follow out the principles laid down for "THE COLONIES," the study of causes rather than of events, the development ... side, the one towards a union of the colonies, the other towards independence Of these the current of union had run a little faster Notwithstanding the authority which they had set over themselves, ... claims.] Southwest of the territory of the Iroquois lay the region of the upper Ohio and its tributaries, particularly the valleys of the Tennessee, the Muskingum, the Allegheny, the Monongahela...