Focus on TN test 12/4/07
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- Mississippi River, Appalachian Mountains
- The _______ ______ borders Tennessee on the west and the _________ ________ on the east.
- Fort Nashboro
- Original name of nashville
- Alvin York
- A famous World War I soldier from the state was _______ ______
- James Robertson, John Donelson
- ________ ________ and ____ ________ were two men who led people to settle in and around Nashville
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- The __________ _______ _______ was created to prevent rivers from flooding.
- Sequoyah
- _______ wrote the Cherokee alphabet
- Watauga Association
- A group of people who crossed from North Carolina to settle the state were known as the ________ ________
- Andrew Jackson, James Knox Polk, and Andrew Johnson
- Name the 3 presidents from Tennessee
- Memphis
- A major cotton shipping port in Tennessee was _______
- Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Clarksville, Murfreesboro
- Name the six largest cities of the state
- Knoxville, because the population was moving west
- What was the original capital of the state, and why was it moved?
- Oak Ridge
- The production of the atomic bomb took place in _____ ______
- Chickasaw, Shawnee, Cherokee, Yuchi
- Name the four Indian tribes that lived in Tennessee.
- William Blount
- George Washington appointed ________ _______ as territorial governor.
- 1861
- Tennessee seceded from the union in _____.
- Cordell Hull
- One of the United Nations founders
- King's Mountain
- Major battle in the American Revolution
- John Sevier
- ______ ________ was the first elected governor of the state
- Blue Ridge Mountains, Great valley of tennessee, cumberland plateau, highland rim, Nashville Basin, Gulf Coastal Plain
- Name the six physical divisions of the state.