1. Standard 8.39: Tennessee’s Westward Expansion

2. When Did Tennessee become a state?
Tennessee became the 16th state in 1796.

3. signer of the United States Constitution.
William Blount
signer of the United States Constitution.

4. William Blount
He was the only governor of the Southwest Territory (land south of the Ohio River)

5. Rocky Mount
in Piney Flats, Tennessee, was the first territorial capital of the Southwest Territory.

6. William Blount
helped the territory gain admission to the Union as the State of Tennessee.
one of Tennessee's first U.S. senators (1796).

7. Treaty of Holston
Treaty between the U.S. and the Cherokee signed on July 2, 1791

8. Treaty of Holston
negotiated and signed by William Blount (U.S.) and John Watts (Cherokee)
US would protect the Cherokee

9. John Sevier the “Father of Tennessee.”
became a war hero after the Battle of Kings Mountain (Revolutionary War.)

10. State of Franklin
See your handout

11. State of franklin Sevier elected governor

12. John Sevier
elected Tennessee's first governor ( and )
served four terms as a Congressman.

13. River Systems in Tennessee

14. Mississippi River The largest river in the United States
western border of Tennessee.
Begins in Minnesota and ends in New Orleans

15. Mississippi River

16. Tennessee river
vital for the survival of Native American tribes-- especially the Cherokee.
The battle of Shiloh fought on the shores of this river.

17. Tennessee River
The Tennessee River is the largest tributary (a stream that flows to a larger stream or other body of water) to the Ohio River.

18. Cumberland River tributary of the Ohio River.
Fort Nashborough was built near it
Tennessee’s capital-- Nashville on it

19. Cumberland River
steamboats carrying goods and people used this river to access the Natchez Trace

20. Natchez Trace
a historical path that extends roughly 440 miles from Natchez, Mississippi, to Nashville, Tennessee
linking the Cumberland, Tennessee, and Mississippi Rivers.

22. Jackson Purchase
included all of Tennessee west of the Tennessee River.
a region in Kentucky between the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and Tennessee River to the east.

23. Jackson Purchase
Andrew Jackson and Isaac Shelby negotiated the purchase from the Chickasaw tribe.

24. Jackson Purchase obtained by the Treaty of Tuscaloosa.
The U.S. paid $300,000 for the land in 1818.