Road to Independence 21-40

What do we call the men that would go hunting up to six months at a time across the Appalachian Mountains?

• longhunters

• mountainhunters

• woodsmen

• backwoodsmen

Who was the first white settler to live permanently in Tennessee?

• William Walker

• William Roundtree

• William Pitt

• William Bean

Who was the first white settler in middle Tennessee that lived in the hollow of a sycamore tree?

• William Roundtree

• Thomas Sharpe Spencer

• William Pitt

• Little Carpenter

Who explored 800,000 acres for the Loyal Land Company that would become the state tree?

• Sir Patrick Henry

• Walter Runner

• Dr. Thomas Walker

• William Walker

What do we call the large opening in the Cumberland Plateau that allowed travelers to travel into Kentucky and Tennessee?

• Cumberland Gap

• Clingman's Dome

• Appalachian Ridge

• Highland Rim

Who defied the law and built the Wilderness Road that brought settlers into Kentucky and Tennessee?

• William Bean

• William Pitt

• John Smith

• Daniel Boone

What do we call farmers in North Carolina that protested against their government and high taxes?

• reformers

• regulators

• reformation

• organizers

What do we call the conflict that broke out when the government of North Carolina sent a militia to put down the protest from the regulators?

• Battle of Alamance

• Battle of the Alamo

• Battle of Allegheny

• Battle of Armeghedan

Where did the regulators that survived attack flee to escape persecution from the North Carolina government?

• Monongahela River

• Allegheny River

• Watauga River

• Mississippi River

What was the name of the famous Tennessean that would establish the city of Nashville that was the leader of the regulators?

• James Robertson

• Nathaniel Bacon

• John Smith

• Ethan Allen