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> 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. <P0-S1>  Water from the Niger River is diverted into a system of canals at the Markala dam 35 km downstream of Ségou. <P0-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". <P0-S3>  Although the French colonial administration constructed the system to produce cotton for the textile industry, the main agricultural product is now rice. <P0-S4>  Around 320,000 tons are grown each year representing 40 percent of the total Malian production. <P0-S5>  Large quantities of sugar cane are also grown in joint ventures between a Chinese company and the Malian state. <P0-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> <P1-S0> Elizabethton is a city in, and the county seat of Carter County, Tennessee, United States. <P1-S1>  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. <SEP> <P2-S0> 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. <P2-S1>  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. <P2-S2>  North Carolina annexed the Watauga settlement area, by then known as the Washington District, in November 1776. <P2-S3>  Within a year, the area was placed under a county government, becoming Washington County, North Carolina, in November 1777. <P2-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> <P3-S0>  Thus the birth of Modifications. <P3-S1>  Many were incarcerated for such illegal actions. <P3-S2>  Modification were a fix to the crash as litigation has ensued as the lenders reorganized and renamed the lending institutions and government agencies are to closely monitor them. <P3-S3>  Taking on the Banks that ran USA Government was a great and dangerous undertaking that made America Great Again as Justice for Consumers reigned. <P3-S4>  The key of the crash was not the House, but the loan product used and the interest and money that was accrued form the note holders that staff too immorally. <P3-S5>  Additionally Modifications were also made to address the falsifications such as inappropriate mortgage charges, filing of fraudulently deeds, reporting of and at times filing of fraudulent mortgages that were already paid off that were fraudulently continued by lenders staff and attorneys or brokers or anyone in the Real Estate Chain through the issues of real estate terms to continue to violate United States Laws, contract law and legal precedence where collusion was often done again to defraud and steal from the Note Holder was such a common practice that was evidence as to why the Mortgage Crash in 2008 occurred for the purpose of wining the prize of stealing form Homeowners and those that foreclosed was actually often purposefully for these monies note holders were unaware of to be obtained which was why Balloon mortgages and loans were given to the staff in the Real Estate Market with the hoper and the expectation that the loan holders would default as it offered opportunity to commit illegal transactions of obtaining the homeowners funds. <P3-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. <P3-S7>  The immoral and illegal actions of predatory lending station and their staff began with the inception of balloon mortgages although illegal activity has always existed in the arena, yet the crash created "Watch Dog" like HAMP TEAM, IRS, COMPTROLLER< Federal Trade Commission Consumer Protection Bureau, FBI, CIA, Local Police Department, ICE ( The FBI online Computer crime division receives and investigates computer crimes that record keeping staff from title companies, lending institutional staff, legal staff and others created fraudulent documents to change payments and billing of note holders to obtain the money note holders are typically unaware of) and other watch dog agencies came into existence to examine if houses were purchased through a processed check at Government Debited office as many obtained free homes illegally. <P3-S8> 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. <P3-S9>  The legal precedents and reporting agencies were created to address the violations of laws to consumers while the Modifications were created to assist the consumers that are victims of predatory lending practices. <P3-S10>  During the Great Depression, loan transfers, loan assumption, and loan bail out programs took place at the state level in an effort to reduce levels of loan foreclosures while the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Trade Commission, Comptroller, the United States Government and State Government responded to lending institution violations of law in these arenas by setting public court records that are legal precedence of such illegal actions. <P3-S11>  The Market relied heavily on Consumers ignorance to prosper, ignorance of real estate terms, ignorance on what they were to be charged properly for unethical financial gain and while staff in real estates lending arenas mingled terms to deceive y deliberate confusion consumers out of cash and homes while the USA Government provided Justice through President Obamas Inception and IRS Inception of Modifications which addressed these unethical profits in Reals Estate. <P3-S12>  Modifications HMAP HARP were also birthed to help note holders get Justice through reduced mortgage by making terms legal. <P3-S13>  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. <P3-S14>  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.