Chapter 3: Early Tennessee Settlers

Cumberland Gap is...

• a store

• a break in the hills that opened to the West

• a wagon train

Dragging Canoe was

• Chief of the Sunshine Tribe

• President of the Indians

• the son of chief Attakullakulla. He tried to warn his father and the other Cherokees of the danger of the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals.

The Cherokees agreed to give up 20 million acres of land between the Ohio and Cumberland Rivers when they signed the....

• Treaty of Sycamore Shoals

• The Treaty of the Old Town Road

• The Treaty of the Great Chief

This man owned Transylvania Land Company. He bought the land from the Cherokees but did not have permission to sign the treaty.

• George Washington

• Richard Henderson

• Dracula

This man worked for Richard Henderson. He worked for Richard Henderson. He created the Wilderness Road which was a direct trail to settlements. He was the most famous long hunter and frontiersmen in Tennessee and American history.

• Davy Crockett

• Daniel Boone

• Diego

He was a delegate to the state (North Carolina) constitutional convention/the Watauga Compact.

• Daniel Boone

• John Sevier

• Patrick Star

These men were the first white men to cross the Proclamation Line. They got their names because they were gone for months at a time hunting, trading, and scouting out new frontier land. They drew maps to show land and resources.

• short hunters

• long hunters

• crocodile hunters

She was the Cherokee Beloved Woman and Dragging Canoe's cousin. She warned the settlers that Dragging Canoe and the Cherokees were going to attack them.

• Nancy Pelosi

• Nancy Ward

• The Canoe Woman

The line along the base of the Appalachian Mountains. King George III of England said that colonists could not settle WEST of this line.

• The Declaration Line

• The lunch line

• The Proclamation Line

This was the agreement that formed the government of the Watauga Settlements.

• The Watauga Compact

• The Sweet Home Alabama Compact

• The Watauga Wilderness Road