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Paleo indians arrive in Tennessee -
300
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Archaic indians arrive in Tennessee -
Mar 24, 750
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Woodland Indians arrive in Tennessee -
Feb 27, 1492
Moors driven from Spain
The last of the Muslims called the Moors were driven from Spain in the first months of 1492. When Spain defeated the Moors in the Reconquista the entire Iberian Peninsula was restored under Christian rule ending the Reconquista. -
Mar 24, 1492
Columbus arrives in America
Christopher Columbus was a European explorer. The voyages Christopher Columbus went on influenced other European explorers to explore foreign lands. -
Mar 27, 1539
Hernando De Soto comes to Tampa Bay
Hernando De Soto went to Tampa Bay, Florida with a select group of soldiers from the Catholic nations of both Spain and Portugal. This select group of men was veterans of the Reconquista, the 800-year-old war between the inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula and the Muslims who had ruled there for those 800 years. -
Mar 24, 1540
Hernando De Soto arrives in Tennessee
Hernando De Soto was the first European to have crossed the Mississippi river. There are many theories about which side of Tennessee he explored some historians say the northern route and some say the eastern route. -
Hernando De Soto dies
Hernando De Soto was a Spanish explorer who led the first expedition deep into the United States. Hernando De Soto was the first European documented to cross the Mississippi river. -
Jamestown established
Jamestown was a settlement located on Jamestown Island in the Virginia Colony. Jamestown was founded as James Fort. Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in the United States. -
Quebec settled
Quebec is an area in east-central Canada. Quebec is the only Canadian provinces with a dominantly speaking French population and whose official language is French. -
The English arrive in Tennessee
English explorers James Needham and Gabriel Arthur led an expedition from Virginia into eastern Tennessee in 1673. In the same year the French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet went on a voyage down the Mississippi. -
Rene Robert Cavelier La Salle led expedition to Mississippi
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. -
Daniel Boone was born
Daniel Boone was an American pioneer, explorer, and a frontiersman. Daniel Boone was a militia officer during the Revolutionary War. Daniel Boone was captured by Shawnee warriors and later was adopted to the Shawnee Indian tribe. -
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c. Long hunters enter Tennessee for the first time
The long hunters were a group of men connected together to hunt. Each long hunter had two horses, animal traps, guns, a large supply of gun powder and lead, a small handvise, bellows for fires to bend metals, and files and screw plates for reparing guns. -
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c. Treaty of Hard Labor
The purpose of the Treaty of Hard Labor was to reserve certain parts in Tennessee for the Cherokee indians -
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The French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was a war between great britain and france in north america. The french and indian war was commonly known as the seven years war. -
Daniel Boone fights in the French and Indian War
Daniel Boone served with the British military during the French and Indian war. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris gave the Indians all land between the proclamation line (Appalachian mountains) and the Mississippi river. -
Proclamation line
The royal proclamtion line of 1763 was issued by King George III. The proclamation line was to make relations with Native North Americans better through trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier. -
Treaty of Fort Stanwix
The treaty of fort stanwix was an important treaty between North American indians and the British. The purpose of this treaty was to adjust a boundary line between the Indian lands and the British settlements. -
Watagua settlement
In 1768 the Watagua indians first settled in Tennessee. The Watagua Indians were the first to settle in Tennessee. -
c. Daniel Boone searches for the Cumberland Gap
The Cumberland Gap is a pass through the Cumberland Mountains, which is a region of the Appalachian Mountains. The Cumberland Gap is also known as the Cumberland Water Gap. -
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American revolution
The cherokee indians helped the Americans in the American revolution. The Creek indians helped the British in the American revolution. -
Daniel Boone creates Wilderness Trail
Daniel Boone and thirty woodsmen turned an Indian trail into the Wilderness Trail. The Wilderness Trail went from Fort Chiswell in Virginia through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. -
200,000 people went west on Wilderness Road.
In 1790, two hundred thousand people went west on the Wilderness Road, which went for three hundred miles. -
Tennessee statehood
Tennessee is Americas 17th largest state according to population. Nashville, Tennessee's capital city is America’s second largest city. -
The War of 1812
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. -
Battle of horseshoe bend
The Battle of Horseshoe bend was fought during the war of 1812 in Alabama. United States forces and Indian allies defeated the red sticks. The creek Indians of Georgia and Alabama were spilt into the red sticks and the lower creeks. -
The Trail of Tears
The trail of tears was the forced movement of the Native Americans. 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.
