Important People
Revolutionary War
Watauga Settlement and Transylvania Purchase
VOCAB
Misc.
100
This person left his home in the Yadkin Valley to come to TN for wild game and more land.
Who is Daniel Boone?
100
April 1775
When did the Revolutionary War begin?
100
1768
When did the Watauga Settlement start?
100
A military force composed mainly of citizen soldiers
What is militia?
100
This country controlled the land between the Atlantic ocean and the Mississippi river after the French and Indian war
Who are the British?
200
This person led an army of volunteers that raided Native American towns in 1871.
Who is John Sevier?
200
The settlers wanted to be free from the Proclamation Line and to take the authority from John Stuart.
Why did the Revolutionary War start?
200
they represented the first constitution written and adopted by free people in America.
What were the Articles of the Watauga Association?
200
An area at the edge of or just beyond a settled area
What is a frontier?
200
The country that controlled the land west of the Mississippi river after the French and Indian war
Who are the Spanish?
300
this person went with Little Carpenter to inspect the goods being offered for Native American lands.
Who is Nancy Ward?
300
Dragging Canoe
who was one person that fought in the Revolutionary War?
300
to acquire parts of Cherokee lands
What was the purpose of the Transylvania Land Companies?
300
To require or collect by legal authority
What is a levy?
300
Watuaga committee of safety
What was created to protect the settlers?
400
this person opposed the sale of Native American lands to the Transylvania Land Company.
Who is Dragging Canoe?
400
The Battle of King's mountain
What was the turning point in the Revolutionary War?
400
1774
When was the Transylvania Purchase created?
400
Fighting or harassment by small groups acting independently.
What is guerilla warfare?
400
Kentucky and the northern part of Tennessee
What land was acquired in the Transylvania purchase?
500
A settler from North Carolina who came to Tennessee in 1760
Who was William Bean?
500
British law was broken by those who entered the Overmountain territory
What was the Proclamation line?
500
to surrender or give up
What is cede
500
Watuaga, Carters valley, Elizabethton, and Nolichucky
What are the four original settlements in Tennessee country?
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