the capital of the United States.

the leader of the Executive Branch

the two parts of Congress

the document that created the 3 Branches of Government

a legal member of a country

the leader of a state

The trail through the Cumberland Gap creating a passage across the Appalachian Mountains; carved by Daniel Boone

A pioneer who is famous for being a longhunter. He is most famous for leading a group of men to clear the Wilderness Road in 1775.

Who was the son of Little Carpenter; Cherokee native that began a war tribe after Cherokee lands were sold during the Watauga and Transylvania purchases? He started the Chickamaugan Tribe.

1775 land lease between Cherokee and Watauga settlers. The settlers paid for the lease with trade goods.

TRUE or FALSE: The Proclamation of 1763 stated that Colonists WERE allowed to settle WEST of the Appalachian Mountains.

What was the name of the settlements along the Cumberland River in Middle Tennessee, including what became Nashville

What is the name of the original settlement on Cumberland River that became Nashville

What was the location of an important Revolutionary War battle; Patriots (known as Overmountain Men) defeated the British using tactics they learned while fighting the Cherokee.

What was the name given to settlers from the Watauga Settlements that went "over" the Appalachian Mountains to fight and defeat the British on Kings Mountain?

Tennessee was made part of this area is 1790

What state became the sixteenth state on June 1, 1796

Andrew Jackson's nickname was _?_.

In 1818, TN purchased the land in West TN from the Chickasaw Indians. What was the name of this purchase?

What did the Treaty of New Echota do?

What was Andrew Jackson's role in TN becoming a state? CHOOSE TWO

What year was the final round up American Indians to move to the area west of the Mississippi River?

Approximately how many people died on the Trail of Tears?

What famous Tennessean disagreed with the Indian Removal Act and where the nation was headed and moved to Texas?

In June of 1812, the US declared war on________________________.

The Red Stick Creeks favored peace and sided with the Americans.

The battle where some Tennesseans fought with Jackson along with Creeks, Cherokees, and other soldiers in Alabama was the Battle of ________________________________.

_________________________were victorious at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

The idea that Americans had a God-given right to spread west across the continent (from Atlantic to the Pacific)

American president, who helped America achieve manifest destiny by the Mexican American war and the Oregon treaty.

land that was ceded to America from Mexico in the treaty of Gudalupe Hidalgo, including parts of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and all of Nevada and California. America purchased this land for 18 million

This invention allowed people to travel both up and down stream on rivers such as the Mississippi, and to trade goods more easily than the flat boats that were smaller and could only go one way.

This invention connected the East to the West Coast and decreased the time it took to cross the continent from several months to just 6 days. This allowed for more settlement and increased population in the West.

A system of enforced servitude enacted with violence, brutality, and intimidation. The root cause of the Civil War.

The major city in middle Tennessee that the Union took over without firing a single shot - happened after the Siege of Ft. Donelson.

Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union.

One of the largest victories achieved by the Union Army. Effectively ended fighting in the Civil War in Tennessee. The Army of Tennessee was destroyed and would never fight again. Confederate General John Bell Hood resigned his command. USCT

Regiment of former slaves, freed slaves, escaped slaves, and other African American men that joined the Union to fight in the Civil War.