HIST 2030 EXAM #1 STUDY GUIDE
Chapters 1-6
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QUIZZES: POTENTIAL SHORT ANSWER TERMS FROM TEXT AND LECTURE
Chapter 1
“creative adaptability”
middens
Archaic Native American Culture
Woodland Native American Culture
Mississippian Native American Culture
Cherokee
Chickasaw
Shawnee
Creek
Green Corn Ceremony
Hernando DeSoto
Overhill Cherokee
James Needham and Gabriel Arthur
James Marquiette and Louis Joliet
Fort Prudhomme
Alexander Cuming
Moytoy
Christian Prieber
Oconostota
Attakullakulla
John William Gerard De Brahm
Paul Demere
Long Hunters
Fort Loudoun
Proclamation of 1763
Chapters 2
Regulators
Richard Henderson
Thomas Walker
Watauga Association
Washington District
Transylvania Company
Dragging Canoe
Nancy Ward
Lochaber Treaty of 1770
Sycamore Shoals Treaty (1775)
William Bean
French Lick
* Terms in Bold are lecture terms.
Battle of King’s Mountain
James Robertson
John Donelson
Cumberland Compact
Land Grab Act (1783)
Mero District
State of Franklin
Chapter 3
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Southwest Territory
1796
John Sevier
George Roulstone
Andrew Jackson
William Blount
Treaty of the Holston (1791)
Sam Houston
Chapter 4
Land Compact of 1806
John Sevier
Andrew Jackson
“Blount Conspiracy”
Issac Shelby
New Echota Treaty (1835)
Trail of Tears
Stay Law
Reelfoot Lake
Fort Mims Massacre
Horseshoe Bend
Natchez Trace
Battle of New Orleans (1815)
Second Great Awakening
Cumberland Presbyterians
John Overton
Andrew Erwin
William Carroll
Corrupt Bargain
Chapter 5
Constitution of 1835
Hugh Lawson White
Newton Cannon
“Lean Jimmy” Jones
Whigs
Texas Annexation
James K. Polk
Nashoba
Nashville Convention of 1850
Opposition Party
“Know Nothing” Party
Andrew Johnson
Railroads
Cotton
William “Parson” Brownlow
Tennessee Manumission Society
Chapter 6
John Bell
Isham G. Harris
Franklin County
Conditional Unionists
Gideon Pillow
Andrew Johnson
William G. “Parson” Brownlow
Greenville Convention
Forts Henry & Donelson
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Stones River
Tullahoma Campaign
Chickamauga
Battle of Lookout Mountain
Battle of Missionary Ridge
Emancipation Proclamation
Fort Sanders (Knoxville)
Battle of Franklin
Battle of Nashville
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Fort Pillow
EXAM: PART I: STATE SYMBOLS AND TENNESSEE GEOGRAPHY
State Symbols
Limestone
Agate
Freshwater Pearls
Bobwhite Quail
Mockingbird
Largemouth Bass
Channel Catfish
The Great Seal of Tennessee
“Tennessee – America At Its Best”
“Agriculture and Commerce”
Students will identify on a Tennessee map and answer short answer questions related to the following
features:
Central Basin
Eastern Highland Rim
Unaka Mountains
Mississippi River
Alluvial Floodplain
Cumberland Plateau
Plateau Slope of
West Tennessee
Western Valley of the
Tennessee River
Great Valley of
East Tennessee
Sequatchie Valley
Western Highland Rim
Clingman’s Dome
Reelfoot Lake
Fall Creek Falls
Cedars of Lebanon
Cumberland Caverns
Cumberland Gap
Cades Cove
Walden’s Ridge
Walker Line
Chickasaw Bluffs
Island No. 10
Battle of Fort Pillow (1864)
Memphis
Corinth
Battle of Shiloh
Fort Henry
Fort Donelson
Battle of Nashville
Battle of Franklin
Battle of Stones River
Tullahoma Campaign/Hoover’s Gap
Battle of Chattanooga
Battle of Chickamauga
Fort Sanders (Knoxville)
Cairo, Illinois
EXAM: PART II: TENNESSEE HISTORICAL QUOTATIONS
Explain the origin, context, and significance of the following quotes:
1. “We have given you this, why do you ask for more. You have bought a fair land. When you have this
you have all. There is no more game left between the Watagua and the Cumberland. There is a cloud
hanging over it. You will find its settlement dark and bloody.”
2. “That an equal participation of the free navigation of the Mississippi is one of the inherent rights of the
citizens of this State; it cannot, therefore, be conceded to any prince, potentate, power, person, or persons
whatever.”
3. Toast: “To the Union, it must be preserved.” Response: “To the Union, next to our liberty, the most
dear.”
4. “Tennessee will not furnish a single man for the purpose of coercion, but 50,000 if necessary for the
defense of our rights and those of our Southern brothers.”
EXAM: PART III: POTENTIAL HIST 2030 EXAM #1 ESSAY QUESTIONS
1. “Geography as the matrix of history.” Describe the ways the Tennessee’s geographic setting has
shaped its political, economic, and cultural history from the emergence of the Overhill Cherokees to
its drive for statehood. The essay should address at least three of the following topics: “creative
adaptability,” DeSoto, the uniqueness of the Overhill Cherokee, British and French imperial desires
for the Overhill region, trade relations between the Cherokees and Europeans, the French-Indian
War, Fort Loudon, the Proclamation of 1763, Watauga, King’s Mountain, Fort Nashborough, the
state of Franklin, “Grand Divisions,” the Southwest Territory, and the 1796 Presidential election.
2. “A Dark and Bloody Land.” Trace the relationships between Europeans/Colonists/Americans
exploring or settling in Tennessee and the Native Americans from 1540 to 1838 and describe how
those relationships affected the course of Tennessee history. The essay should address at least three
of the following topics: DeSoto, British and French imperial desires for the region, trade relations
between the Cherokees and Europeans, the French-Indian War, Fort Loudon, the Proclamation of
1763, Watauga, the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals (1775), Dragging Canoe, Fort Nashborough, the state
of Franklin, the Treaty of the Holston (1791), the Creek War of 1812-14, Andrew Jackson, and the
Trail of Tears.
3. “Tennessee’s Golden Age.” Beginning with its entrance into the Union in 1796, Tennessee and its
citizens have played prominent roles on the national political stage. Describe how Tennessee politics
and politicians influenced national affairs from 1796-1860. The essay should address at least three of
the following topics: John Sevier, William Blount, Tennessee’s statehood debate, Andrew Jackson,
Fort Mims, the Battle of New Orleans (1815), Texas, the Whig party, James K. Polk, the Mexican
War, the Nashville Convention of 1850, the railroad boom, Andrew Johnson, John Bell, and
Tennessee’s secession crisis.
4. “Grand Divisions.” Describe the geographic, historic, economic, and political differences that
formed Tennessee’s Grand Divisions, and explain how the interaction of these divisions have
shaped Tennessee’s history from its early origins to 1861. The essay should address at least three of
the following topics: Watauga, Cumberland settlements, the statehood debate and special
census/referendum, 1810 populations shift, slavery, the rise of Andrew Jackson, Congressional
Reservation, the state capital controversies, internal improvements, the 1835 constitutional
convention, Whigs vs. Democrats, Andrew Johnson, Isham Harris, the February 1861 secession
referendum, the June 1861 secession vote.