LONGHUNTERS & TRAILS
How did longhunters affect frontier settlement?
Answer: What is more people wanted to settle after hearing about the good land?
Traveled west in a flotilla
Answer: Who is John Donelson (JD)?
Answer: Who is John Donelson (JD)?
Why was Tennessee eligible to apply for statehood in 1795?
Answer: What is it had a large enough population of more than 60,000?
Tennessee’s constitution included a preamble and how many articles?
Answer: What is eleven?
A person chosen to represent others at a meeting
Answer: What is a delegate?
Which trail encouraged western expansion into Tennessee?
Answer: What are the Wilderness Road and the Warrior’s Path?
Helped settle Tennessee
Answer: Who is Both (B)?
What did Tennessee do before becoming a state in 1796?
Answer: What is held a convention to create its first constitution and elect its first officials?
One of those articles was a Declaration of ________.
Answer: What is Rights?
A flat-bottomed boat used for frontier travel
Answer: What is a flatboat?
What term describes hunters who explored the frontier for long periods?
Answer: What is longhunters?
Part of the first permanent settlement
Answer: Who is William Bean (WB)?
Which states served as models for Tennessee’s first constitution?
Answer: What are Pennsylvania and North Carolina?
What did Tennessee’s first constitution have in common with the U.S. Constitution?
Answer: What is both safeguarded individual rights in legal proceedings?
A group of boats traveling together
Answer: What is a flotilla?
Which direction did settlers push using these trails?
Answer: What is westward?
Traveled through East Tennessee with Daniel Boone
Answer: Who is William Bean (WB)?
Who gave the Southwest Territory to the federal government?
Answer: What is North Carolina?
Who was the first elected Congressman to Tennessee?
Answer: Who is Andrew Jackson?
Someone who buys land hoping to profit
Answer: What is a land speculator?
Why did the Wilderness Road matter for statehood?
Answer: What is it increased population growth in the future state of Tennessee?
Established Fort Nashborough
Answer: Who is John Donelson (JD)?
What helped settlers reach Tennessee territory?
Answer: What is frontier trails that encouraged westward movement?
Who was the first governor of Tennessee?
Who was John Sevier?
Means “to cross” or “travel through”
Answer: What is traversed?