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?
This Tennessean is given credit/blame for persuading Congress to begin the War of 1812.
Who is Felix Grundy?
This man was president of the U.S. when Congress passed with Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This man was the 11th president of the U.S. who believed strongly in Manifest Destiny.
Who was James K. Polk?
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?
Texas gained its independence from Mexico after they forced the Mexican Army to surrender at this battle and sign a treaty.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
The loss of support from this state was a major reason that the state of Franklin failed to be approved 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?
Americans were talking about this when they said they had a moral duty to bring knowledge and civilization to the West and to posses land from the East to West coasts.
What is Manifest Destiny?
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?
These are the three important Tennesseans we learned about the fought under General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in the War of 1812.
Who are David Crockett, Sam Houston, and Sequoya?
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?
The Cherokee people were able to better communicate with distant tribe members as well as read and write Cherokee books and newspapers because of this new invention.
What is the Cherokee syllabary?
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?
When Texans later fought the Mexican Army they yelled this phrase to motivate each other to avenge the loss of an earlier battle.
What is, "Remember the Alamo!"