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The Paleo Indians arrived to Tennessee. The word "Paleo" comes from Greeks meaning "ancient" or "very old." They crossed the Bering Land Bridge to come to the new world.
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The Archaic Indians arrived to Tennessee. They created a weapon called, "Atlatl", which is a spear thrower. An Archaic settlement was found in Eva near Benton County.
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The Woodland Indians arrived to Tennessee. They were culturally and technically advanced tribes who began permanently inhabiting villages.
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Columbus established continual contact between the new and old world.
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He landed in Flordia in search of riches and resources in 1539.
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He was the first European to set foot in Tennessee
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De Soto was appointed Conquistador of the New World. De Soto died from being ill in 1542, after crossing the Mississippi. Of the original 600 men in the De Soto expedition, only 311 survived.
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The defeat of the Spanish Armada made England a much better country because of their pride.
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The founder of Jamestown is John Smith.
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In 1608, the French settled Quebec.
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The French arrive to Tennessee and the first English came to Tennessee.
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The fort La Salled built is called Fort Prudhomme.
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The war is named after the main leader of the Native American side, The war lasted from 1689-1697.
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In 1710 a French trader built a trading post on the Nashville Mound, to trade with the Shawnee that lived there.
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The French fought a series of Wars over control of Europe and their overseas empires.
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The fort was on Cherokee Territory called Fort Loudoun
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After a few distiputes the good relations between the British and the Cherokee finally ended.
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The Bristish Army was sent to releive fort Loudoun.
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The Treaty of Paris was peace between Great Britain
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The Proclamation, in effect, closed off the frontier to colonial expansion. The proclamation was presented as a measure to calm the fears of Indians, as they felt the Colonists would drive them out of their land and force them to move Westward.
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Cherokee fought with the Americans in the Revolutionary War
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200,000 people had West on the Wilderness Road.
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Tennessee became a state on June 1, 1796.
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The war of 1812 was fought between the United States and England. The United States declared war on England for various reasons. The most popular reason was because they wanted to expand,
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Andrew Jackson, the Cherokee Indians, and the White Sticks helped defeat the Red Sticks.
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The Trail of Tears was a forced movement of the Indians by Jefferson. The Indians were forced to moved Westward onto Reservations.
