Final Exam

Question 1

The first settlers came to TN in 1768 or 1769

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The first four settlements were the Watauga, North Holstein, Carter Valley, and Nolichucky.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Attakullakulla was the local Cherokee chief.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

In 1770, the Lochabar Treaty drew boundary lines to control white settlement.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

The Watauga Association basically leased their land from the Cherokee.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

The Cherokee did not take sides during the Revolutionary War.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

The Sycamore Shoals Treaty gave even more land to white settlers.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

The Cherokee launched several attacks on East TN settlements in 1776.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

The first group of Cumberland settlers reached French Lick on Halloween, 1779.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

The first group of Cumberland settlers wrote a rudimentary constitution called the “Cumberland Compact,” establishing Middle TN’s first government.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Until 1789, TN was considered a part of NC.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

In 1790, NC gave up its territorial claim and TN became the Southwest Territory.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

The three Mero District counties were Davidson, Sumner, and Williamson.

Answer 13

False

Question 14

William Blount was the first gov of the Southwest Territories.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

The Treaty of New York (1790) included all of the TN regional tribes.

Answer 15

False

Question 16

The Creek Nation sent representatives to New York to negotiate with President Washington in person.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

Through the early 1790s, Middle TN settlers were the targets of frequent attacks from Native Americans.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

The Territories population doubled between 1791 and 1795.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

The Mero District (Middle TN) had a higher population than the eastern counties.

Answer 19

False

Question 20

The state Constitutional Convention was held in Knoxville.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

TN entered statehood on June 1, 1796.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

TN’s first gov was ______________.

Answer 22

John Sevier

Question 23

Murfreesboro became the state capital in 1819.

Answer 23

True

Question 24

The __________ Purchase of 1812 opened West TN for settlement.

Answer 24

Jackson

Question 25

Andrew Jackson became a national hero during the War of _______.

Answer 25

1812

Question 26

The religious movement that began in KY and TN in the late 1790s was called the Second Great Revival.

Answer 26

False, Second Great Awakening

Question 27

The Reverend William McGee was one of the first leaders of the new religious movement (Second Great Awakening).

Answer 27

True

Question 28

(Second Great Awakening) Camp meetings were often attended by thousands of people and lasted several days.

Answer 28

True

Question 29

In 1829, ____________ resigned as TN's gov and moved west.

Answer 29

Sam Houston

Question 30

In 1824, Andrew Jackson lost his first presidential bid to whom?

Answer 30

John Quincy Adams

Question 31

The forty years before the Civil War are called the ____________ period.

Answer 31

antebellum

Question 32

TN's Constitution was significantly revised in 1835.

Answer 32

True

Question 33

(1835 Revision) The "new" Constitution put a _________ ___________ in place, with a justice from each of the state's three sections.

Answer 33

supreme court

Question 34

After Jackson's retirement from politics, the Jacksonian mantle rested on the shoulders of James K. Polk.

Answer 34

True

Question 35

Governor William Carroll was a leading reformer of the prison system.

Answer 35

True

Question 36

In 1860, the enslaved comprised ___% of TN's population.

Answer 36

25

Question 37

In 1860, there were about ______ free blacks in the state.

Answer 37

7300

Question 38

The 1850s saw the rise in TN of a new form of transportation for goods and people.

Answer 38

True

Question 39

A plantation is defined as a farm where ___ or more enslaved are held.

Answer 39

20

Question 40

West TN became a leader in wheat production.

Answer 40

False

Question 41

TN celebrated its Centennial with a huge fair called the ___________ ____________.

Answer 41

Centennial Exposition

Question 42

Promoters of the "New South" were trying to bring more agriculture to the South.

Answer 42

False

Question 43

By, 1900 TN had _______ miles of track.

Answer 43

3137

Question 44

In the 1890s, TN experienced an ___________ boom.

Answer 44

industrial

Question 45

Textiles were TN's leading industry in 1900.

Answer 45

False

Question 46

Which major TN city had the highest percentage of population growth between 1870-1900?

Answer 46

Chattanooga

Question 47

Ida B. Wells led a crusade against _________.

Answer 47

lynching

Question 48

The Coal Miner's War began because the company hired _________ from the state to break a strike.

Answer 48

convicts

Question 49

In 1878, Memphis was hit with a deadly outbreak of __________ __________.

Answer 49

yellow fever

Question 50

In the 1880s, the Temperance movement became more popular as an effort to outlaw alcoholic drink in the state.

Answer 50

True

Question 51

One of the biggest goals of TN progressives was the prohibition of _________.

Answer 51

alcohol

Question 52

The rich elite led the way in achieving progressive goals.

Answer 52

False

Question 53

This Memphis mayor controlled West TN politics and refused to enforce prohibition.

Answer 53

Ed Crump

Question 54

Governor Austin Peay is best known for reforming the state's public ________ system and building new _________.

Answer 54

highway, roads

Question 55

After state prohibition, TN's women worked to secure a woman's right to ______.

Answer 55

vote

Question 56

In 1916, Clarence Saunders opened the first modern supermarket in Memphis, It was named ________ ________.

Answer 56

Piggly Wiggly

Question 57

This hate group saw a popular resurgence in the teens and 1920s.

Answer 57

Ku Klux Klan

Question 58

The Butler Act provided the basis for this famous Dayton, TN trial in 1925.

Answer 58

The Scopes trial

Question 59

"Hillbilly" music was another name for country music.

Answer 59

True

Question 60

The flight of Southern blacks to the North to seek jobs (1919-1930) is called the Great ___________.

Answer 60

Migration

Question 61

______________ was blamed for not doing enough to stop the Great Depression.

Answer 61

Herbert Hoover

Question 62

In 1932, __________________ was elected president.

Answer 62

Franklin Roosevelt

Question 63

The new president's program for ending the Depression was called the _____ _______.

Answer 63

new deal

Question 64

The Caldwell banking firm was the first big TN casualty of the Depression.

Answer 64

True

Question 65

The _____ was designed to bring electricity to rural areas of TN, GA, and AL.

Answer 65

TVA

Question 66

This entire city was built during the 1940s as part of the Manhattan Project.

Answer 66

Oak Ridge

Question 67

TN's climate and terrain made it perfect for military _____ _________, the biggest of which were held in Middle TN in 1943.

Answer 67

war games

Question 68

Nashville's aircraft plant was the Boeing Aircraft Plant.

Answer 68

False

Question 69

As in World War I, because of the draft, thousands of _________ found work in TN's factories.

Answer 69

women

Question 70

Smyrna had an airbase during WWII.

Answer 70

True

Question 71

One of the first school desegregation cases took place at ________ ______ in Anderson County.

Answer 71

Clinton High

Question 72

The first black undergraduates entered UT in January 1961.

Answer 72

True

Question 73

This Supreme Court case opened the door for desegregation in 1954.

Answer 73

Brown v. Board of Ed.

Question 74

This school in Monteagle educated Civil Rights activists from Rosa Parks to John Lewis.

Answer 74

Highlander Folk School

Question 75

Many of those involved with the Nashville Sit-Ins were influenced by Ghandi's ideology of ____ _________ resistance.

Answer 75

non-violent

Question 76

____ ______ was the mayor of Nashville during the sit-ins.

Answer 76

Ben West

Question 77

John Lewis authored a set of instructions to be carried by sit-in participants.

Answer 77

True

Question 78

MLK, Jr. was assassinated in ___________ on April 4, 1968.

Answer 78

Memphis

Question 79

MLK, Jr. was in that city to show support for the striking garbage workers.

Answer 79

True

Question 80

The victims of the Fayette County mass evictions in 1960 brought their plight to national attention by living in a tent city.

Answer 80

True