5th Grade Pep Week Terms Practice

___________________ left his home in North Carolina to follow a buffalo trail into East Tennessee and Kentucky. He was referred to as a longhunter.

• Daniel Boone

• John Sevier

• Nancy Ward

• Dragging Canoe

These Indians lasted longer than the other three prehistoric groups, estimated 5,000 years and lived along the Mississippi River in mounds.

• Mississippian Indians

• Archaic Indians

• Tennessee Volunteers

• Cumberland Gap

These Indians were the first to came to America from what is now Asia, following large animals, crossing a land bridge from Russia to Alaska. These people were nomadic and traveled in small groups.

• Paleo Indians

• Mississippian Indians

• Cherokee Indians

• Overmountain Men

When corn, beans and squash are grown together, it is called _________.

• War of 1812

• Battle of the Bluff

• the three sisters

• the Cumberland Gap

This person was the clerk of the Watauga Settlement where there were only five elected officials in charge of legal issues and law breakers.

• John Sevier

• Nancy War

• Andrew Jackson

• James Robertson

This is where William Bean and his family settled in Tennessee after passing the Appalachian Mountains. They leased the land from the Cherokee Indians for ten years before buying it.

• The Cumberland Settlement

• Pinson Mounds

• Watauga Settlement

• Cumberland Gap

This beloved woman in the Cherokee nation was able to set in meetings with the chief and make important decisions. When fighting the Creek Indians, her husband was killed, and she picked up his gun fighting harder.

• Sequoyah

• Nancy Ward

• Andrew Jackson

• Dragging Canoe

The place where Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia meet.

• Coats-Hines Site

• Pinson Mounds

• Cumberland Gap

• Chucalissa Indian Village

These Indians lived in east Tennessee in small villages near rivers; there were seven different clans.

• Cherokee Indians

• Creek Indians

• Chickasaw Indian

• Shawnee Indians

This group of Indians lived in Middle Tennessee and were nomadic, wondering through the woods making it easy for them to be attacked.

• Cherokee Indians

• Chickasaw Indians

• Shawnee Indians

• Creek Indians