Early TN Key People

won the Battle of Horseshoe Bend against the Creek; signed the Indian Removal Act forcing the Cherokee to move to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears.

• James K. Polk

• Andrew Jackson

• John Ross

• Overmountain Men

TN frontiersman & politician who died at the Battle of the Alamo, fighting against Mexico

• Sequoyah

• James Robertson

• David Crockett

• John Ross

President; believed in Manifest Destiny (U.S.) goes from ocean to ocean)

• John Sevier

• Sam Houston

• James Robertson

• James K. Polk

founded & defended Fort Nashborough against Dragging Canoe winning the Battle of the Bluffs.

• Nancy Ward

• David Crockett

• James Robertson

• William Blount

Cherokee leader who fought to prevent his people from moving to Oklahoma.

• John Ross

• Nancy Ward

• Andrew Jackson

• William Blount

leader and defender of Watauga settlement; later the 1st governor of TN

• James Robertson

• Overmountain Men

• John Sevier

• Andrew Jackson

Cherokee woman won warned the Watauga settlers of an attack by Dragging Canoe.

• James K. Polk

• William Blount

• John Ross

• Nancy Ward

these Patriots won against the Loyalists and British

• Sequoyah

• Overmountain Men

• David Crockett

• Andrew Jackson

won with the Texan army against Mexico, leading to Texas' independence

• William Blount

• John Sevier

• Sam Houston

• Nancy Ward

created the written Cherokee language using syllables

• Sequoyah

• Nancy Ward

• James K. Polk

• Sam Houston