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Tennessee becomes part of the union.
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Jackson served from 1829 to 1837 He was also the 7th president of the U.S.
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The Chickasaw Treaty extended Tennessee's western boundary to the Mississippi River, and it opened up a new agricultural area for settlement.
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The Trail of Tears forced the Cherokee people to move west.
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The U.S. Congress approves the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting citizenship to African-Americans.
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The Jim Crow Laws made colored and white people go to different places to do the same thing. Colored men and women had different bathrooms and different waterfountains! So unfair!
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Around 100,000 of the state's young men volunteered or were drafted into the armed services during World War I.
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The Grand Ole Opry begins in downtown Nashville on November 28, 1925.
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The Great Smoky Mountains National Park was dedicated in 1940 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929. In 1964 he won the Nobel Peace Prize - four years before his assasination in Memphis, TN.
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On August 16, 1977 , Elvis Presley died in Memphis of Cardiac Dysrhythmia.
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Albert Gore was born on March 31, 1948 in Washington, D.C. He was the 45th Vice President under Bill Clinton.
