People
First white settler in Tennessee
William Bean
The French economy in North American was based on what?
Fur trapping
What was the name of the purchase that acquired the Cumberland Settlement land?
Transylvania Purchase
The first settlers in the Watauga Association came through what to get there?
Cumberland Gap
Nashville was named after who?
Francis Nash
Found and named the Cumberland Gap
Thomas Walker
The British economy in North America was based on what?
Agriculture
What was the name of the Cherokee Indian that sold the Transylvania Purchase?
The Watauga Compact was the first ____________ written by free people in America
Constitution
Who were the volunteers from the Watauga settlement that helped win the Battle of Kings Mountain?
Overmountain Men
A founder of the Watauga Settlement and leader of the Overmountain Men
John Sevier
The French and Indian War was going on during what European Conflict
Seven Years War
Nashville was originally called what?
French Lick
Holston Treaty
What was the British plan in the Loyalist South to help win the Revolutionary War?
Free the slaves and enlist them in the British military
Privately purchased a large piece of land in Kentucky and Tennessee from the Cherokees
Richard Henderson
What were the three goals of the British during the French and Indian War?
Expand empire, increase access and defense, and build alliances
How did the settlers win the Battle of the Bluff?
Charlotte Robertson released 50 hunting dogs to save the settlers from being attacked
Name one present day town that is located in the original Watuaga settlement.
Elizabethton
What were two reasons for why a little piece of the border between Tennessee and Kentucky has a Triangular Jog in it?
Bribed by a barrel of whiskey or the surveyors walked in the wrong direction
The woman who was the hero at Fort Nashborough for "releasing the hounds"
Charlotte Robertson
What were the four goals of the French during the French and Indian War?
Control fur trade, limit westward expansion, build alliances, and link territories
What two parties settled in present day Nashville and what routes did they take?
Donelson Party took the Tennessee River to the Cumberland River. Robertson Party went by land through Kentucky and down through Clarksville.
Knoxville was after who? (First and last name)
Henry Knox
What were three cultural differences between the American colonists and the British soldiers? (They realized this while fighting together in the French and Indian War)
Dialect, Religion, and Social Classes