The Watauga Association settled in what is now this county.
What is Carter County?
100
After 1786, the government of Franklin worked alongside the government of this state.
What is North Carolina?
100
This Tennessean served two terms as a president of the Republic of Texas.
Who is Sam Houston?
100
In 1870 and 1871, the federal government passed the Force Acts to protect the rights of African Americans from this group.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
100
This is the number of state conventions held in 1861 to discuss secession.
What is 2?
200
This leader of the Chickamauga tribe was the biggest opponent of the Watauga Settlement.
Who is Dragging Canoe?
200
This city was the capitol of Franklin.
What is Greenville?
200
This Cherokee woman was instrumental in several peace treaties between her people and the white settlers.
Who is Nancy Ward?
200
Tennessee was the last state to officially pass this amendment, doing so in 1997.
What is the 15th amendment?
200
Of the three Grand Divisions, this division was most in favor of seceding from the Union in 1861, at 84.27%.
What is Middle Tennessee?
300
This area of the Appalachian mountains officially only existed for a year (1776-1777), and was created by the Watauga Petition.
What is the Washington District?
300
The state was originally called Frankland, and renamed after this Founding Father.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
300
This early settler negotiated with the Cherokees on the Transylvania Purchase for 20 million acres of land.
Who is Richard Henderson?
300
He was Tennessee's first African American legislator, taking office in 1873 (born in Rutherford County, represented Davidson).
Who is Sampson Keeble?
300
This paper, created by abolitionist Elihu Embree, ran for only eight months in 1820.
What is The Emancipator?
400
One of Watauga's early leaders, he has an impressive resume: soldier, governor of two states, state senator, and U.S. Representative, to name a few.
Who is John Sevier?
400
By this year, the state of Franklin had collapsed completely.
What is 1789?
400
In this famous early Nashville battle, the Chickamauga Indians lured the men out of a fort; the women successfully defended the fort.
What is the Battle of the Bluffs?
400
This disease spread through the Mississippi Valley in 1878, reducing Memphis' population so greatly that it lost its city status for several years.
What is yellow fever?
400
This Clay County community was created for a group of manumitted slaves prior to the Civil War, and was a site of a Rosenwald school.
What is Free Hill, TN?
500
This North Carolina battle has been attributed to pushing members of the losing side westward, creating Watauga.
What is the Battle of Alamance?
500
In 1785, delegates from Franklin petitioned Congress to become the 14th state; they did not meet the required number of approving states by this number.
What is 1?
500
This Civil War fort on the Tennessee River was the site of a February 1862 battle, the first major victory for the Union in the war.
What is Fort Henry?
500
This document stood in its original form from 1870-1953, which might be the longest period that any such document had remained in effect without amendment anywhere in the world.
What is the 1870 state constitution?
500
This social reformer created Nashoba Commune, advocated abolitionism, dress reform for women, and the abolishment of marriage.