Early Attempts at Statehood
This was Franklin's one and only governor.
Who was John Sevier?
This is the city where the final and current capital of TN is located.
What is Nashville?
What does the chief of the Red Sticks do once he loses at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend?
What is give 22 million acres of Indian lands to ensure peace?
This man was president of the U.S. when Congress passed with Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
North Carolina gave the U.S. government land that would eventually become the Southwest Territory because of what reason?
This was the name of the Territory that would later become called TN.
What is Southwest?
This is the date that TN officially became a state.
What is June 1, 1796?
TN got its nickname "The Volunteer State" because so many Tennesseans volunteered to go fight in this battle in the War of 1812.
What is the Battle of Horseshoe Bend?
This was the name of the treaty under which the U.S. government forced the Cherokee Indians to move west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Treaty of New Echota?
Franklin got how many votes for statehood?
What is 7 out of 9 votes?
Lack of support from which state was a major reason that Franklin failed to be approved as a state by the U.S. Congress.
What is North Carolina?
This was the city of the original capital of TN.
What is Knoxville?
The Creek Indians probably chose the Horseshoe Bend area of the Tallapoosa River in AL because they hoped the river would provide this from their enemy.
What is protection?
This is the purchase of West Tennessee from the Chickasaw Indians in 1817.
What is the Jackson Purchase?
What was the name of the important battle in the War of 1812 that we covered?
What is the Battle of Horseshoe Bend?
This man served as governor of TN when it was known as the Southwest Territory.
Who is William Blount?
This man was the first governor of the state of TN.
Who was John Sevier?
President James Madison called on Tennessee to defend the "Lower Country" after what happened with the Red Sticks?
What is the attack on Fort Mims that killed 500 people?
This journey sadly killed about 1/3 of all Cherokees in 1838 and 1839 because it was so long and during such cold weather.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Andrew Jackson had one goal for his presidency.
What was to remove Indians from Tennessee and other Southern states?
This state was established in 1784 and dissolved in 1788.
What is Franklin?
List three steps that TN took to become a state.
1. meet population requirement
2. vote by citizens
3. Congressional approval
This man was the chief of the Creek tribe called the Red Sticks that attacked settlers in Alabama, which led to the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
Who is Chief Red Eagle?
This man was the Cherokee chief that went to the Supreme Court in 1830 to fight the Indian Removal Act.
Who was Chief John Ross?
There was a feud between the two political parties to allow Tennessee to become a state. How did this feud get resolved?