Tennessee Settlers

The Proclamation Line of 1763 refers to

• the line the white settlers made around their homes to guard against Indian attacks

• the border the British created giving American Indian tribes the right to the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains

• the battle plan that Dr. Thomas Walker created to fight the Cherokee Indians for the land in Tennessee

• the location where William and Lydia Bean built the first permanent settlement

This man was the first white settler credited with exploring the wilderness. He named the Cumberland Gap and Cumberland River.

• William Bean

• Daniel Boone

• David Crockett

• Thomas Walker

The name of the trail opened by Daniel Boone in 1775, which allowed white settlers to travel over steep and rough lands of the Appalachian Mountains is called the

• Sycamore Shoals

• The Proclamation Line

• Wilderness Road

• Watauga Settlement

James Robertson made an agreement with Cherokee chief Little Carpenter that leased land from the Cherokee. This agreement was known as the

• Watauga Purchase

• Proclamation Line

• Wilderness Road

• Sycamore Shoals

Who was Dragging Canoe?

• The white leader for the Cherokee who fought for peace with white settlers

• A Cherokee boy captured by white settlers who began fighting for white settlers

• The son of Little Carpenter who disagreed with the Watauga Purchase and fought against white settlers

• The person who signed the agreement with James Robertson to lease the land that the white settlers wanted to live on

The first written document to form an independent government west of the Appalachian Mountains is called the

• Mayflower Compact

• Watauga Compact

• Sycamore Agreement

• Proclamation Agreement

Why did the Cherokee kill 29 of the settlers that were living at Fort Loudoun?

• They wanted to intimidate the British soldiers to leave the land

• They wanted to live in the fort so that they would be protected

• They wanted revenge for the 29 Cherokee killed by British soldiers

• The Cherokee wanted to win the fort for the French

He was a great long hunter who went on a long hunt that ended up lasting three years, and he was known for his legendary strength

• Thomas Sharpe Spencer

• Thomas Walker

• Daniel Boone

• David Crockett

The first permanent settlers living west of the Appalachian Mountains were the

• Crockett family

• Walker family

• Robertson family

• Bean family

What did the Watauga Compact help accomplish for the settlement?

• gave land divisions to certain individuals

• set up a court with five judges and jail

• gave Indian tribes rights to certain land

• allowed the British to control land in the west