Final Exam Flashcards
The first settlers came to TN in 1768 or 1769
True
The first four settlements were the Watauga, North Holstein, Carter Valley, and Nolichucky.
True
Attakullakulla was the local Cherokee chief.
True
In 1770, the Lochabar Treaty drew boundary lines to control white settlement.
True
The Watauga Association basically leased their land from the Cherokee.
True
The Cherokee did not take sides during the Revolutionary War.
False
The Sycamore Shoals Treaty gave even more land to white settlers.
True
The Cherokee launched several attacks on East TN settlements in 1776.
True
The first group of Cumberland settlers reached French Lick on Halloween, 1779.
False
The first group of Cumberland settlers wrote a rudimentary constitution called the “Cumberland Compact,” establishing Middle TN’s first government.
True
Until 1789, TN was considered a part of NC.
True
In 1790, NC gave up its territorial claim and TN became the Southwest Territory.
True
The three Mero District counties were Davidson, Sumner, and Williamson.
False
William Blount was the first gov of the Southwest Territories.
True
The Treaty of New York (1790) included all of the TN regional tribes.
False
The Creek Nation sent representatives to New York to negotiate with President Washington in person.
True
Through the early 1790s, Middle TN settlers were the targets of frequent attacks from Native Americans.
True
The Territories population doubled between 1791 and 1795.
True
The Mero District (Middle TN) had a higher population than the eastern counties.
False
The state Constitutional Convention was held in Knoxville.
True
TN entered statehood on June 1, 1796.
True
TN’s first gov was ______________.
John Sevier
Murfreesboro became the state capital in 1819.
True
The __________ Purchase of 1812 opened West TN for settlement.
Jackson
Andrew Jackson became a national hero during the War of _______.
1812
The religious movement that began in KY and TN in the late 1790s was called the Second Great Revival.
False, Second Great Awakening
The Reverend William McGee was one of the first leaders of the new religious movement (Second Great Awakening).
True
(Second Great Awakening) Camp meetings were often attended by thousands of people and lasted several days.
True
In 1829, ____________ resigned as TN’s gov and moved west.
Sam Houston
In 1824, Andrew Jackson lost his first presidential bid to whom?
John Quincy Adams
The forty years before the Civil War are called the ____________ period.
antebellum
TN’s Constitution was significantly revised in 1835.
True
(1835 Revision) The “new” Constitution put a _________ ___________ in place, with a justice from each of the state’s three sections.
supreme court
After Jackson’s retirement from politics, the Jacksonian mantle rested on the shoulders of James K. Polk.
True
Governor William Carroll was a leading reformer of the prison system.
True
In 1860, the enslaved comprised ___% of TN’s population.
25
In 1860, there were about ______ free blacks in the state.
7300
The 1850s saw the rise in TN of a new form of transportation for goods and people.
True
A plantation is defined as a farm where ___ or more enslaved are held.
20
West TN became a leader in wheat production.
False
TN celebrated its Centennial with a huge fair called the ___________ ____________.
Centennial Exposition
Promoters of the “New South” were trying to bring more agriculture to the South.
False
By, 1900 TN had _______ miles of track.
3137
In the 1890s, TN experienced an ___________ boom.
industrial
Textiles were TN’s leading industry in 1900.
False
Which major TN city had the highest percentage of population growth between 1870-1900?
Chattanooga
Ida B. Wells led a crusade against _________.
lynching
The Coal Miner’s War began because the company hired _________ from the state to break a strike.
convicts
In 1878, Memphis was hit with a deadly outbreak of __________ __________.
yellow fever
In the 1880s, the Temperance movement became more popular as an effort to outlaw alcoholic drink in the state.
True
One of the biggest goals of TN progressives was the prohibition of _________.
alcohol
The rich elite led the way in achieving progressive goals.
False
This Memphis mayor controlled West TN politics and refused to enforce prohibition.
Ed Crump
Governor Austin Peay is best known for reforming the state’s public ________ system and building new _________.
highway, roads
After state prohibition, TN’s women worked to secure a woman’s right to ______.
vote
In 1916, Clarence Saunders opened the first modern supermarket in Memphis, It was named ________ ________.
Piggly Wiggly
This hate group saw a popular resurgence in the teens and 1920s.
Ku Klux Klan
The Butler Act provided the basis for this famous Dayton, TN trial in 1925.
The Scopes trial
“Hillbilly” music was another name for country music.
True
The flight of Southern blacks to the North to seek jobs (1919-1930) is called the Great ___________.
Migration
______________ was blamed for not doing enough to stop the Great Depression.
Herbert Hoover
In 1932, __________________ was elected president.
Franklin Roosevelt
The new president’s program for ending the Depression was called the _____ _______.
new deal
The Caldwell banking firm was the first big TN casualty of the Depression.
True
The _____ was designed to bring electricity to rural areas of TN, GA, and AL.
TVA
This entire city was built during the 1940s as part of the Manhattan Project.
Oak Ridge
TN’s climate and terrain made it perfect for military _____ _________, the biggest of which were held in Middle TN in 1943.
war games
Nashville’s aircraft plant was the Boeing Aircraft Plant.
False
As in World War I, because of the draft, thousands of _________ found work in TN’s factories.
women
Smyrna had an airbase during WWII.
True
One of the first school desegregation cases took place at ________ ______ in Anderson County.
Clinton High
The first black undergraduates entered UT in January 1961.
True
This Supreme Court case opened the door for desegregation in 1954.
Brown v. Board of Ed.
This school in Monteagle educated Civil Rights activists from Rosa Parks to John Lewis.
Highlander Folk School
Many of those involved with the Nashville Sit-Ins were influenced by Ghandi’s ideology of ____ _________
resistance.
non-violent
____ ______ was the mayor of Nashville during the sit-ins.
Ben West
John Lewis authored a set of instructions to be carried by sit-in participants.
True
MLK, Jr. was assassinated in ___________ on April 4, 1968.
Memphis
MLK, Jr. was in that city to show support for the striking garbage workers.
True
The victims of the Fayette County mass evictions in 1960 brought their plight to national attention by living in a tent city.
True
