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13,000 B.C The Paleo Ians arrive in Tennessee
The Paleo Indians arrive in Tennessee. They were hunters who crossed the Bering Strait from Asia over to North America. -
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6,000 B.C The Archaic Indinas arrive in Tennessee
The Archaic Indians arrive in Tennessee. An Archaic settlement was found near a village named Eva in Benton County. They created the atlatl -
Mar 24, 750
750 B.C The Woodland Indians arrive in Tennessee
The Woodland Indians arrive in Tennessee. The Woodland Indians are the third major prehistoric culture to live in Tennessee. They lasted about 2,000 years. -
Mar 24, 1000
The Mississippian Indians arrive in Tennessee
The Mississippian Indians arrive in Tennessee. The Mississippian culture was the largest and most complex society that lived in prehistoric Tennessee. -
Mar 25, 1492
Columbus Arrives
Christopher Columbus was trying to find the New World also known as America -
Mar 25, 1540
De Soto arrives in TN around Chattanooga
The expidition failed on trying to find gold and other riches -
Mar 25, 1542
De Soto Dies Near Memphis
De Soto became very ill and died on the expidition. His soldiers threw his body in the Mississippi River so that no one would find out about his death. -
Jamestown is established by England
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Qubec was settled by Samuel De Champlain
On July 3, 1608, Champlain landed at the "point of Quebec" -
English first to TN
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Rene Robert Cavelier La Salle led expedition to Mississippi
Rene Robert Cavelier La Salle was a French explorer. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi river, and the Gulf of Mexico. -
Daniel Boone was born
Daniel Boone is born. -
Long Hunters
A longhunter was an 18th-century explorer and hunter who made expeditions into the American frontier wilderness for as much as six months at a time. -
Daniel Boone in the French and Indian War
Daniel Boone fights in the French and Indian War -
The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris gave the Indians all land between the proclamation line (Appalachian mountains) and the Mississippi river. -
The Treaty of Fort Stanwix
The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was an important treaty between North American Indians and the British Empire. The purpose of the treaty was to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and British colonial settlements -
Watauga Settlement
Colonists from Virginia and North Carolina crossed the mountains into lands forbidden to them in the Proclamation of 1763. -
c. 1770 Hard Labor Treaty
The meeting took place at Hard Labor, South Carolina where the participants recognized the cession of certain lands of the Cherokee to the colonies of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. -
c. 1770 Searches for Cumberland Gap
Daniel Boone searches for The Cumberland Gap -
Cumberland Gap
Daniel Boone and 30 woodsmen turned the Indian Trail into the Cumberland Gap -
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The American Revolution
The Cherokee Indians helped the Americans in the American Revolution. The Creek Indians helped the British in the American Revolution. -
The Cherokee help America
The Cherokee help American in the Revolution and the Creek helped the British in the Revolution -
200,000 people went on the Wilderness Road
In 1790, two hundred thousand people went west on the Wilderness Road, which went for three hundred miles. -
Tennessee Becomes a State
Tennessee became a state on June 1, 1796, becoming the 16th state to join the union. -
The War of 1812
The Shawnee indians and the Red Creek indians fought with the British in the war of 1812 and the Cherokee indians fought with the Americans. -
The Battle of Horseshoe Bend
Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Indians and The White Sticks defeat the Red Sticks -
The Trail of Tears
The Native Americans were forced to move from the southeastern parts of the United States, Five civilized Indian tribes were sent west on the trail of tears.
