1. Cumberland Compact By: Ben Kue

2. Focus Questions What is the Cumberland Compact? The Cumberland Compact are articles of agreement signed on May 13, 1780 by settlers when they arrived on the Cumberland River and settled Fort Nashborough, which would become Nashville, Tennessee. What did the cumberland compact do? The Cumberland compact required that all men sixteen years of age and older were required to serve in the militia. The compact establishes a relationship between the settlers of the Cumberland region and limited the punishment that could be meted out by the judicial system. Serious capital crimes were to be settled by transporting the offending party to a location under the direct jurisdiction of the State of North Carolina for a proper trial. The compact remained in effect until Tennessee became a state. How was the Cumberland Compact created? After taking adavntage of the Henderson's Treaty in 1779, settlers, lead by James Roberson and John Donelson moved to the French Lick, modern Nashville. It was there the settlers formed the Cumberland Compact. Why did they migrate to the location? They moved to the location because no one had yet to settle on the banks of the Cumberland River which is also known as the French Lick. Many families risked their lives in the wildreness to start a new life in new lands.

3. Notes In 1864, the only copy that survived was found in a chest belonging to Samuel Barton Composed and signed by 256 colonists Created during the revolutionary war John Donelson was Andrew Jackson's father-in-law Was signed where modern day Nashville is, but was known as Fort Nashborough John Doleson's great-grandson was a US senator

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