Indigenous Settlements
The first Tennesseans who were nomads who traveled in search of food with stone weapons and tools.
Paleo-Indian 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.
Yuchi tribe
This is the low point in the Appalachian Mountains where KY, TN, and VA meet. It was first used by migrating buffalo.
Cumberland Gap
The Donelson Party faced these hardships near Nashville.
Native attacks and dangerous rivers.
Because of winning this battle, the American colonists were encouraged that they could win the Revolutionary War.
Battle of Kings Mountain
During this indigenous period, the natives were beginning to live in one place and they invented new types of weapons and tools.
Archaic Period
This is the region of Tennessee where the Cherokee tribe lived.
East Tennessee. (The pointy side)
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.
Wilderness Road
The individual who brought men and livestock to French Lick (Nashville) and established a successful settlement there.
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.
Overmountain Men
This indigenous period was the first time Tennessee natives developed farming.
Woodland Period
This tribe played a game called stickball, 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.
Cherokee tribe
Many settlers traveled Tennessee on rivers using these.
Flatboats
This man is sometimes called the "Father of Tennessee." He helped form the Watauga Settlement and led it.
John Sevier
North Carolina asserted its control over the settlers, which led to the failure of this state.
The Lost State of Franklin
Natives during the Mississippian Period created these to a provide a place for religious temples and cemeteries.
mounds
Cherokee Indians were placed into clans based on this.
mother line's
Most famous "Beloved Woman" and leader in the Cherokee tribe.
Nancy Ward
It represented the first written constitution or self-government in the country.
Watauga Compact
This is why Franklin remained part of North Carolina.
They didn’t receive the 2/3 majority vote from the Confederation Congress
This major development separates the Woodland Era from the Mississippian Era.
Developing new types of beans and corn.
Complete the flowchart:
Tribes--> ___________--> Families
Clans
He disagreed with the Cherokee’s treaties to allow the settlers to take their land.
Dragging Canoe
This was only one in a long series of battles aimed at ending the Cumberland Settlements by Chickamaugans and Creeks.
Battle of the Bluffs
Whe first governor of the Southwest Territory.
William Blount