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The State of Franklin was formed in part of East Tennessee. This short-lived State of Franklin passed out of existence in 1788.
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North Carolina ceded its western land, the Tennessee county, to the Federal Government. Congress now designated the area as the Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio.
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Blount becomes governor of the Southwest Territory and the superintendent of Indian Affairs (Chocktaw, Creek, Cherokee, and Chickasaw)
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On June 1, 1796, Congress approved the admission of Tennessee as the sixteenth state of the Union. John Sevier is elected as the state's first governor.
