Early Settlements
Group that created the word: Tennesee “Where the rivers run together”
What is Yuchi?
First governor of TN
Who is John Sevier?
1920s African American movement in Harlem area of New York City (poets, writers, and artists)
What is Harlem Renaissance?
African American soldiers who previously served in the US Army. They were to help protect settlers, maintain the West, and escort Native Americans to designated lands.
What are Buffalo Soldiers?
Created for easier transportation of goods and services
What is the Interstate Highway System?
Site where the Paleo group from TN was discovered
What is Coats-Hines?
Governor of Territory South of Ohio River in 1700
Who is William Blount?
US entered WWI in 1917 due to the Germans sinking this ship that had Americans onboard. Germans used submarine warfare to stop trade and tried to control the waters in efforts to expand their territory.
What is the Lusitania?
He helped pass the Indian Removal Act, fought in many wars including Horseshoe Bend, and became the 7th president of the United States
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Launch of Sputnik satellite began the competition between Soviet Union and the United States
What is the Space Program?
Early group from TN that created Pinson Mounds for burial and ceremonies
What is Woodlands?
Pass through the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Cumberland Gap?
December 7, 1941- a day that lives in “infamy” when Japan surprised attacked a US naval base in Oahu, Hawaii
What is Pearl Harbor?
Increased middle class, faster production, new technology and inventions
What is the Gilded Age?
Led non-violent protests, marches, and boycotts for Civil Rights
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Native Americans that lived in East TN mountains
What is Cherokee?
Battle near Murfreesboro, Union drove Confederates out of East TN
What is Stones River?
6 million Jews were killed during WWII
What is the Holocaust?
Immigrants/workers needed protection, so AFL was created by Samuel Gompers, collective bargaining and strikes were used
What are labor unions and laws?
Famous case head by the Supreme Court in 1954 that ruled that it is illegal to have segregated schools
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
Native Americans that lived in central TN along the Cumberland River, followed matrilineal ancestry, and lived in wigwams
What is Shawnee?
P-pop of 60,000 A-approval R-residents vote, and T-TN state constitution
What are 4 things needed to become a state?
The “Secret City” was a secluded area in East TN where the Manhattan Project was carried out to create nuclear bombs and other projects.
What is Oakridge?
Amendment for women’s suffrage, Anne Dallas Dudley fought for women’s suffrage
What is the 19th Amendment?
12 African Americans who integrated to a Clinton school in TN
Who are the Clinton 12?