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The Paleo Indians arrive in Tennessee. They were hunters who crossed the Bering Strait from Asia over to North America.
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The Archaic Indians arrive in Tennessee. An Archaic settlement was found near a village named Eva in Benton County. They created the atlatl
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The Woodland Indians arrive in Tennessee. The Woodland Indians are the third major prehistoric culture to live in Tennessee. They lasted about 2,000 years.
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The Mississippian Indians arrive in Tennessee. The Mississippian culture was the largest and most complex society that lived in prehistoric Tennessee.
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Christopher Columbus was trying to find the New World also known as America
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The expidition failed on trying to find gold and other riches
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De Soto became very ill and died on the expidition. His soldiers threw his body in the Mississippi River so that no one would find out about his death.
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English settle Jamestown in 1607
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On July 3, 1608, Champlain landed at the "point of Quebec"
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Rene Robert Cavelier La Salle was a French explorer. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi river, and the Gulf of Mexico.
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Daniel Boone is born.
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A longhunter was an 18th-century explorer and hunter who made expeditions into the American frontier wilderness for as much as six months at a time.
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Daniel Boone fights in the French and Indian War
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The Treaty of Paris gave the Indians all land between the proclamation line (Appalachian mountains) and the Mississippi river.
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The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was an important treaty between North American Indians and the British Empire. The purpose of the treaty was to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and British colonial settlements
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Colonists from Virginia and North Carolina crossed the mountains into lands forbidden to them in the Proclamation of 1763.
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The meeting took place at Hard Labor, South Carolina where the participants recognized the cession of certain lands of the Cherokee to the colonies of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia.
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Daniel Boone searches for The Cumberland Gap
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Daniel Boone and 30 woodsmen turned the Indian Trail into the Cumberland Gap
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The Cherokee Indians helped the Americans in the American Revolution. The Creek Indians helped the British in the American Revolution.
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The Cherokee help American in the Revolution and the Creek helped the British in the Revolution
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In 1790, two hundred thousand people went west on the Wilderness Road, which went for three hundred miles.
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Tennessee became a state on June 1, 1796, becoming the 16th state to join the union.
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The Shawnee indians and the Red Creek indians fought with the British in the war of 1812 and the Cherokee indians fought with the Americans.
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Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Indians and The White Sticks defeat the Red Sticks
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The Native Americans were forced to move from the southeastern parts of the United States, Five civilized Indian tribes were sent west on the trail of tears.
