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Paleo indians are the first people to come to Tennessee.
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The Archaic indians come to Tennessee.
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The Woodland indians first came to Tennessee at this time.
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The Mississippians first came to Tennessee in 1000 A.D. They are the fourth group of people to come to Tennessee country.
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This time in the world is when the Crusades began in Europe.
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This time period is when the Magna Carta was first written.This was the first idea of higher law. It stated that nobody was above the law.
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In 1271 Marco Polo went and visited China.
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Colombus set up continual contact between the old world and the new.
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In 1539 De Soto landed in Florida to purue what he thought would be unlimited riches for life.He came with select soldiers from the Catholic nations of Spain and Portugal. He came 47 years after Colombus first reached the New World.
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He was the first unknown European to set foot on what was to become Tennessee.
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In the spring of 1540, after crossing the Missippi River, De Soto got ill and died near what is now Memphis,Tennessee. His expedition that he started ended and the endless riches he seeked were never found.
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The Spanish Armada was defeated by the Britsh in 1588. This paved the way for trade routes and discovery in the New World for England and France.
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The english come to the New World and settle Jamestown.
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In 1608 a frenchmen by the name of Samuel De Champlain founded Quebec.
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In 1673 the first English settlers set foot on Tennessee country for the first time.
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In 1682 William Penn founded Pennsylvania.
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In 1689 King Philip's War started over who got the land that was at the Mississippi Valley. There were a series of war in this.
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The French established a trading post in the Nashville area at this time.
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In 1717 George Boone, Daniel Boon's father, left England and sailed to Pennsylavania to join the colony.
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In 1732 James Oglethorpe founded Georgia.
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In 1734 Daniel Boone was born.
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At this time the longhunters entered Tennessee country for the first time in history.
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In 1754 the French and Indian War started. It is one of the most famous wars of our history.
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In 1755 Daniel Boone first began fighting in the French and Indian War. He wasn't famous at that time. He just wanted to help for the cause.
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In 1757 Ft. Loudoun was built by the British in the Cherokee territory on the bank of the Little Tennesse River.
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In 1759 good relations between the British and the Cherokee ended horribly.
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The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1763. This is a very famous treaty in our history.
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William Bean and his party clear land in order to create the Watauga settlement. This is the first settlement in Tennessee history.
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The British negotiated the Treaty of Fort Stanwix so they could move the Iriquios tribe to the territories of Kentucky and Tennessee.
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In 1770 Daniel Boone left his home in persuit to find the Cumberland Gap. If found he could make a name for himself in history and it did.
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The Hard Labor Treaty was negotiated to open up land in the Kentucky and Tennessee territories.
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Boone and 30 of his woodesmen turned the indian trail into a road to travel through the Cumberland Gap.
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In this timespan one of the most historic wars in American History began and ended. This historic war was the Revolutionary War.
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The Cherokee indians decide to fight with the Americans in the Revoulutionary War. This is a very big move because we needed more resources.
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In the 4th of july, 1776 United States officially declared their independence from Britain.
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By 1790 the Wilderness Road, created by Daniel Boone and his Woodsemen, almost 200,000 people had gone west on this road.
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In 1776 Tennessee becomes a state of the United States of America.
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In this War the Shanneh indians and the Creek indians fought with the British and the Cherokee inidians helped the Americans.
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Europeans forced 5 civilized indian tribes out of their territories in order for land and riches. They sent them west many miles which was called the Trail of Tears. It is called this because half of the indians that went on this dreadful journeys became ill and died.
