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100
During this 20th century war, Tennessee was home to eleven prisoner of war camps for European captives.
What is World War II?
(Camp Clinton in Crossville)
(Camp Clinton in Crossville)100
This late 19th century gentleman has a Nashville college named in his honor, since he donated a million dollars for its founding in 1873.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
100
What is Highlander Folk School?
100
This was the city in which Ida B. Wells opened her newspaper shop, although it was later destroyed in 1892.
What is Memphis?
100
April 4th, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN.
What is the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.?
200
These two key forts protected almost all of Tennessee from water born invasion during the Civil War, both fell early in 1862.
What are Forts Henry and Donelson?
200
This man was born as a slave in Davidson County, but went to Canada via the Underground Railroad. He was a leader of the Black Exodus Movement in the Reconstruction era.
Who is Pap Singleton?
200
This Tennessean took on the Baxter Law in Dayton, TN in the 1920s.
Who is John Scopes?
200
This Civil War battle, fought next to the Tennessee River, had more casualties than the Revolution, War of 1812, and Mexican-American War combined.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
200
Although the Federal government didn't pass the 21st amendment until 1920, Tennessee banned this product in 1909.
What is alcohol?
300
This Tennessean was awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry in France, he killed 28 enemy soldiers and captured 132.
Who is Alvin C. York?
300
This Empress of the Blues was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and began singing publicly at nine years old.
Who is Bessie Smith?
300
Tennessee was the 36th state to pass this amendment, which gave us the nickname "The Perfect 36". We have Febb Burn to thank for that.
What is the 19th Amendment?
300
This Nashville building was established as a World War I memorial, dedicated in 1925.
What is War Memorial Building?
300
Clinton High School was the first public school in the United States to face this event in 1956.
What is public school desegregation?
400
This Tennessee battle witnessed the highest percentage number of casualties for the relatively small size of the armies of any Civil War battle.
What is the Battle of Stones River?
400
This man was Tennessee's first African American senator (1969), and is a cousin to Thurgood Marshall. Tennessee State University has named a campus in his honor.
Who is Avon Williams?
400
Cordell Hull of Carthage, TN co-founded this New York-based institution aimed at international cooperation.
What is the United Nations?
400
This East Tennessee city was pivotal in the creation of the atom bomb during World War II.
What is Oak Ridge?
400
This disease caused Memphis to lose its city status in 1879, and they were downgraded to a taxing district until 1892.
What is Yellow Fever?
500
On this battlefield, in Middle Tennessee, Sam Watkins said, "the death-angel was there to gather its last harvest...It was the grand coronation of death."
What is the Battle of Franklin?
500
This "Pathfinder of the Seas" was a astronomer, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and educator. He's pictured on the library ceiling at the State Capitol.
Who is Matthew Fontaine Maury?
500
This Tennessean was the first newspaper editor in the United States to create a paper specifically aimed at pure abolition (1820).
Who is Elihu Embree?
500
This labor struggle took place in Anderson County when coal mine owners replaced paid labor with convict labor. The conflicts lasted two years.
What is the Coal Creek War?
500
Tennessee was the last state to officially pass this amendment in 1997, although it was unofficially passed in 1867.
What is the 15th amendment?