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The Woodland Indians came and started buliding permanent villages.
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The Paleo Indians arrived in Tennesse around 15,000 years ago, when the Ice Age ended.
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The Archaic Indians and were the first to bring farming and agriculture to Tennessee.
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Hernando de Soto landed in Florida to pursue what he thought were unlimited riches
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After the Spanish Armada was defeated by the British in 1588 it opened the door for the French and British to continue settlements in North America.
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The 1st two Englishmen set foot in TN; James Needham and Gabriel Arthur.
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Sieur de La Salle led an expedition to the mouth of the Mississippi river.
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In King Philip's war France and Great Britan fought a series of battles over the control of Europe.
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Other French explorers journeyed along the Ohio and Cumberland rivers which is now present day middle TN.
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With the establishment of Georgia as a colony Great Britan established the 13 cololnies.
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The French and Indian War starts.
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The British built a fort in the Cherokee territory.
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Good Relations came to an end between the British and the Cherokee.
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A British army of 1,500 men were sent to retrieve Fort Stanwix
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the Treaty of Paris was signed
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The British negotiated the Treaty of Fort Stanwix. With that the british purchased the claim of the Iroquois tribe to the territory of Kentucky and Tennessee
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Daniel Boone and 30 woodsmen turned their Indian trail into the Wilderness Road
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Almost 200,000 people had gone west to the Wilderness Road
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The Shawnee Indians and their chief (Tecumsuh) fought in the War of 1812
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The Mississipian Indians arrive.
