Indigenous Settlement People Groups
This indigenous period in TN began around 12,000 BC. The people who lived during this time were nomads who travelled in search of food.
What is the Paleo Period?
This American Indian Tribe in TN had a word Tana-tsee, which meant where the rivers meet. It is where the name of our state comes from.
What is the Yuchi tribe?
This is the low point in the Appalachian Mountains where KY, TN, and VA meet. It was first used by migrating buffalo.
What is the Cumberland Gap?
This man was hired by Judge Richard Henderson to help lead a group of people to the Cumberland area of TN. They left in February 1778 on long boats along a 1,000 mile journey by rivers and didn't arrive until April.
Who was John Donelson?
Because of winning this battle, the American colonists were encouraged that they could win the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Kings Mountain?
During this indigenous period, the natives were beginning to live in one place, farm, and weave baskets.
What is the Archaic Period?
This tribe's primary village was near modern-day Nashville, but they were a nomadic tribe that hunted and farmed and traded with European settlers. They lived in wigwams. Which tribe is this?
What is the Shawnee tribe?
Daniel Boone's trail that went all the way to the Ohio River became known by this name. Thousands of settlers used it to move west.
What is the Wilderness Road?
This man led led a group of people in 1777 to a new settlement in Nashville. He was known as the "Father of Middle TN." Who is he?
Who was James Robertson?
Fighting "Indian style," walking softy through the forest without being heard, and knowing the land well were reasons that this side won at the Battle of Kings Mountain.
Who were the Overmountain Men?
At Pinson Mounds in Madison County, archeologists discovered that the people during this period built mounds to honor their dead as well as for ceremonies. What indigenous people did this?
What is the Woodland Period?
In this tribe women had equal rights as the men, and families had a winter home and a summer home. Nancy Ward was a member of this tribe.
What is the Cherokee tribe?
King George III passed the Proclamation of 1763 to set aside what land for the American Indians?
What is the land west of the App. Mountains?
This man is sometimes called the "Father of Tennessee." He helped form the Watauga Settlement and led an army at the Battle of Kings Mountain against the Cherokee and won.
Who was John Sevier?
This man was the leader of about 1,000 British soldiers at Kings Mountain.
Who was Major Ferguson?
The Chucalissa Indian Village in Memphis TN was during this period. This site has burial mounds and other examples of life from this settlement group. Which group was this?
What is the Mississippian Period?
This tribe was near the Mississippi river. This tribe was very warlike and taught their sons to be brave and fierce warriors.
What is the Chickasaw tribe?
This man wanted to settle in KY and tried to move his family there in 1773, but they were attacked by Cherokee Indians who killed one of his children.
Who was Daniel Boone?
This man was not happy that his father, the Cherokee Chief sold some of their land to the Watauga settlers and began working with the British to attack the settlers.
Who was Dragging Canoe?
At the Battle of Kings Mountain, the Overmountain Men fought this enemy.
Who were the British/Loyalists?
This settlement was discovered in TN by archeologists who believe it was built during the Paleo-Indian period. Bones of a mastodon were found here. What settlement is this?
What is the Coats-Hines settlement?
This tribe lived in present day Chattanooga, TN as well as parts of Florida and Georgia. They hunted and farmed and were enemies with their neighbors, the Cherokee. Their village cheif was called a mico. Which tribe is this?
What is the Creek tribe?
In 1769, this man started the first permanent settlement in what is now Tennessee. Who was he? Extra 200 is you know what settlement he started?
Who was William Bean?
What was the Watauga Settlement?
This settlement began in 1769 when William Bean and his family settled here. Bean chose the location for this settlement based on the line set by the Proclamation of 1763. They leased the land from the Cherokee Indians. What settlement is this?
What is the Watauga Settlement?
What general took over for Major Patrick Ferguson after he was killed at the Battle of Kings Mountain?
Who was General Henry Clinton?