Question: Elizabethton is the historical site of a semi-autonomous government provided a basis for what later developed into the state of what?

<P0-S0>  Although it lasted only a few years, the Watauga Association provided a basis for what later developed into the state of Tennessee and likely influenced other western frontier governments in the trans-Appalachian region. <P0-S1>  North Carolina annexed the Watauga settlement area, by then known as the Washington District, in November 1776. <P0-S2>  Within a year, the area was placed under a county government, becoming Washington County, North Carolina, in November 1777. <P0-S3> The Watauga Association (sometimes referred to as the Republic of Watauga) was a semi-autonomous government created in 1772 by frontier settlers living along the Watauga River in what is now Elizabethton, Tennessee. <P0-S4>  (This is the present day Washington County, Carter County and other areas now located in the northeast part of the state of Tennessee.) <SEP> <P1-S0>  During the so-called "Great Recession" of the early 21st century, loan modification became a matter of national policy, with various actions taken to alter mortgage loan terms to prevent further economic destabilization. <P1-S1>  Thus the birth of Modifications. <P1-S2>  Modifications HMAP HARP were also birthed to help note holders get Justice through reduced mortgage by making terms legal. <P1-S3> Loan modification is the systematic alteration of mortgage loan agreements that help those having problems making the payments by reducing interest rates, monthly payments or principal balances. <P1-S4>  that collect the Escrow that is rightfully the Homeowners but because most Homeowners are unaware of what money is due them and how they can loose their escrow. <P1-S5>  Finally, It had been unlawful to be charged by an attorney to modify as well as fro banking staff to modify terms to increase a mortgage and or change lending product to a balloon in an concerted effort to make homeowner foreclose which is also illegal, computer fraud and not the governments intended purpose or definition of a modification. <P1-S6>  Crimes of Mortgage ad Real Estate Staff had long assisted nd finally the squeaky will could not continue as their deviant practices broke the state and crashed. <P1-S7>  Modifications fixed the Notes to proper lower interest, escrow, tax fees that staff typically raised for no reason. <P1-S8>  It is yet to date for clarity how theses enforcements came into existence and except b whom, but t is certain that note holders form the Midwest reached out in the Democratic Process for assistance. <P1-S9>  Modification of mortgage terms was introduced by IRS staff addressing the crisis called the HAMP TEAMS that went across the United States desiring the new products to assist homeowners that were victims of predatory lending practices, unethical staff, brokers, attorneys and lenders that contributed to the crash. <P1-S10>  Taking on the Banks that ran USA Government was a great and dangerous undertaking that made America Great Again as Justice for Consumers reigned. <P1-S11>  FBI Mortgage Fraud Department came into existence. <P1-S12>  Many were incarcerated for such illegal actions. <P1-S13>  Many people from various arenas involved in reals estate have been incarcerated for these actions as well as other illegal actions like charging for a modification. <P1-S14>  Due to absorbent personal profits nothing has been done to educate Homeowners or Creditors that this money from equity, escrow is truly theirs the Loan Note Holder and it is their monetary rights as the real prize and reason for the Housing Crash was the profit n obtaining the mortgage holders Escrow. <SEP> <P2-S0> The Office du Niger is a semi-autonomous government agency in Mali that administers a large irrigation scheme in the Ségou Region of the country. <P2-S1>  Water from the Niger River is diverted into a system of canals at the Markala dam 35 km downstream of Ségou. <P2-S2>  The water is used to irrigate nearly 100000 ha of the flat alluvial plains to the north and northeast of Markala that form part of the "Delta mort". <P2-S3>  Although the French colonial administration constructed the system to produce cotton for the textile industry, the main agricultural product is now rice. <P2-S4>  Around 320,000 tons are grown each year representing 40 percent of the total Malian production. <P2-S5>  Large quantities of sugar cane are also grown in joint ventures between a Chinese company and the Malian state. <P2-S6>  The irrigation scheme uses 2.7 km3 of water each year corresponding to around 10 percent of the total flow of the Niger River. <SEP> <P3-S0>  Elizabethton is the historical site of the first independent American government (known as the Watauga Association, created in 1772) located west of both the Eastern Continental Divide and the original Thirteen Colonies. <P3-S1> Elizabethton is a city in, and the county seat of Carter County, Tennessee, United States.