Early Tennessee Settlements - Miles

King George III drew an imaginary line through the Appalachian Mountains and forbade settlers from moving west of the line.

• Proclamation of 1763

• Cumberland Gap

• First step toward statehood

• Failure of Franklin

A road blazed by Daniel Boone that helped westward movement by providig a path for travelers through the Appalachian Mountains into what is now Tennessee and entucky. Went through the Cumberland Gap.

• Cumberland Gap

• Watuga Settlement

• Wilderness Road

• Watuga Compact

A natural pass through the Appalachian Mountains created by a meteorite strike a long time ago

• Wilderness Road

• Cumberland Gap

• Battle of the Bluffs

• Overmountain Men

First permanent settlement in what is now Tennessee

• Cumberland Settlement

• Lost State of Franklin

• Watauga Settlement

• Failure of Franklin

Document that set up first government and laws in what is now Tennessee

• Watauga Compact

• First step toward statehood

• Failure of Franklin

• Proclamation of 1763

A chief who split off from Cherokee tribe because he did not want to have peace with the white settlers; he and his warriors formed the Chickamauga tribe; he led attacks against white settlers in Watauga and Fort Nashborough

• Dragging Canoe

• John Sevier

• James Robertson

• John Donelson

A Cherokee beloved woman who saved the life of Lydia Bean, wife of a leader at Watauga; the two women became friends and taught each other skills from their cultures

• Nancy Reagan

• Nancy Ward

• Nancy Drew

• Nancy Sevier

One of the founders of the Watauga Settlement; a leader of the Overmountain Men at the Battle of Kings Mountain; the first and only governor of the Lost State of Franklin

• James Robertson

• John Donelson

• John Sevier

• William Blount

Also known as Fort Nashborough (later called Nashville)

• Cumberland Settlement

• Cumberland Gap

• Wilderness Road

• Lost State of Franklin

Led group of 200 men over land through the Cumberland Gap to the Cumberland Settlement, where they built Fort Nashborough

• Dragging Canoe

• James Robertson

• John Sevier

• John Donelson