ERA 3: 1754-1820

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ERA 3 1754-1820

• Revolution and the New Nation

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Seven Cherokee Chiefs in London
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Dragging Canoe

• He opposed the treaty with Richard Henderson in
  1775 that opened the Tennessee country for
  settlement, predicting that whites would regret
  purchasing a dark and bloody ground

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William Bartram

• Bartram traveled through Cherokee country,
  recording the animal and plant life in 1792
• He characterized the Cherokees idealistically,
  writing, companies of young, innocent Cherokee
  virgin, some busy gathering the rich fragrant
  fruit, others having already filled their
  baskets, lay reclined under the shade offragrant
  native bowers.The sylvan scene of primitive
  innocence was enchanting, and perhaps too
  enticing for hearty young men long to continue
  idle spectators.

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Manskers narrative (1768)

• Mansker was a contemporary of Daniel Boones and
  an early explorer of Tennessee
• His narrative speaks of abundant game in the
  region as well as contact with Native Americans

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Early school book, 1781
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The Siege of Yorktown, 1781
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Early Citizens Petitioned their Legislatures for
Relief

• Three transcriptions of petitions to the
  Tennessee General Assembly are included below
• The subjects include a divorce (1819),
  illegitimate children (1819), and the manumission
  of slaves (1817)
• The detail at left shows the last page of the
  manumission request

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Tennessees Founding Document 1796 Constitution
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1796 map of Tennessee
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The Creek War of 1813 and 1814