Outline of Ways Tennessee History Can Be Integrated into American History

using the Tennessee Encyclopedia

·         What examples from Tennessee history can be used in an American history class to make the course more relevant to the students?

·         How can an understanding of our state’s history improve our citizens?

·         How is Tennessee different from other states?

·         In what ways is Tennessee history a microcosm of American history?

Exploration of the North American Continent

            Desoto (under Soto expedition)

            Explorations, Early

            French exploration of the Cumberland

            Luna Expedition

            Overhill Cherokees

            Pardo Expedition

            Shawnees

British Colonial period - French and Indian War

            Boone, Daniel

            Cumberland Gap

            Fort Loudon

            Proclamation of 1763 - the Beans come across the mountains

            Timberlake, Henry

            Walker, Thomas

Colonial Events leading up to American Revolution

            Regulators - James Robertson

            Watauga Compact

            Richard Henderson’s desire to create a 14^th colony - Transylvania

American Revolution

            Conflicts with Native Americans

            Robertsons settle the Cumberland

            Sevier - Battle of Kings Mountain

Articles of Confederation

            Franklin (state of)

George Washington becomes President

            Southwest Territory (Territory South of the River Ohio)

            Statehood for Tennessee - conflicts between Federalists and Republicans

                        (election of 1796)

War of 1812 - nationalism

            Battle of Horseshoe Bend

            Battle of New Orleans

Sequoyah

Rise of Andrew Jackson

Indian Removal - Trail of Tears

The  Amistad

            Felix Grundy - U. S. Attorney General

James K. Polk - young Hickory

            Tennesseans and the Mexican War

Two-Party Politics between 1836-1860

            Whigs and Democrats

Election of 1860 -

            John Bell - Constitutional Union Party

Civil War

            Tennesseee Battles

            David Farragut

            Andrew Johnson - Democratic Governor

            Emancipation Proclamation (Tennessee was excluded)

            Election of 1864

            Assassination of Lincoln

Reconstruction

            Impeachment of Lincoln

            Ratification of 13^th, 14^th, 15^th amendments

Populism

            Farmers Alliance

            Grange Movement

Ida B. Wells  - lynchings

Panic of 1893

            Centennial Exposition

            Political power of the railroads

Spanish-American War - end of isolationism

            Panama Canal

Progressivism

            Assassination of Senator Edward Carmack

World War I

            Alvin York

            Calvin Ward

Woman Suffrage

            Tennessee’s ratification

The Twenties

            Piggly Wiggly

            Scopes Trial - rise of religious fundamentalism

            rise of radio - Grand Ole Opry

            Austin Peay’s education reforms

Depression and New Deal

            Luke Lea and Caldwell and Co.

            Cordell Hull

            CCC, WPA

            TVA

            General Neyland

World War II

            Oak Ridge-Manhattan Project

            Cornelia Fort

            POW camps in Tennessee

Cold War

            development of interstate highways

Election of 1948

            Kefauver and Gore

Elvis Presley and the Birth of Rock and Roll

Brown v. Board of Education

            Southern Manifesto

Clement’s Speech at the 1956 Democratic National Convention

Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee

            Haywood County

            Anderson County

            Nashville Sit-ins

            Two-party Politics

            Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Women’s Movement

            Tennessee and the ERA

Vietnam

Tennessee as Little Michigan - Saturn and Nissan

New Federalism

Changes in Agriculture

Big League State:  Professional sports come to Tennessee

Tennessee’s role in national politics in the year 2000