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Topic Assignments
Below are the different group assignment documents plus resource links for research.
Standards 5.26 and 5.27
Topic Assignment: Beginning of TN
Helpful Resources:
1) TN Gen Web – History of Campbell County –Tennessee’s Name Dates Back to 1567 Spanish
Explorer: http://www.tngenweb.org/campbell/hist-bogan/tennessee.html
2) Wikipedia – Tanasi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanasi#Tanasi's_relationship_with_Chota
3) Tennessee Blue Book – Student Edition - Chapter 1 https://tnsoshistory.com/chapter1
4) Chickasaw TV – aerial video tour of Pinson Mounds: https://www.chickasaw.tv/videos/pinson-mounds-aerial-tour-tennessee
5) YouTube – Studies Weekly – Pinson Mounds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWbTp2_K7FE&feature=youtu.be
6) Tennessee State Museum – Traveling Trunks –“The Life and Times of the First Tennesseans” https://www.speakcdn.com/assets/2588/tsm_first_tennesseans_digital.pdf
Standard 5.28
Topic Assignment: Cherokee Tribe
Topic Assignment: Chickasaw Tribe
Topic Assignment: Creek Tribe
Topic Assignment: Shawnee Tribe
Helpful Resources:
1) Tennessee Blue Book – Student Edition –Chapter 1 https://tnsoshistory.com/chapter1
2) WarPaths2PeacePipes – Native American Indians – Southeast Native Americans:
https://www.warpaths2peacepipes.com/native-american-indians/southeast-native-americans.htm
3) Tennessee Encyclopedia https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net (Search terms: Chickasaws, Cherokee, Shawnees)
4) Muscogee (Creek) stomp dance: https://youtu.be/ZntpcZweql0?t=57
Standard 5.30
Topic Assignment: Wattauga Settlement
Helpful Resources:
1) Tennessee Blue Book – Student Edition –Chapter 2
https://tnsoshistory.com/chapter2
2) TN4Me – Frontier – Becoming a State
http://www.tn4me.org/major_cat.cfm/era_id/3/major_id/26
3) An American Family History – Tennessee –
Watauga Map: https://www.anamericanfamilyhistory.com/Tennessee%20Photos/Watagua%20Map.jpg
Standards 5.29 and 5.31
Topic Assignment: Cumberland Settlements
Helpful Resources:
1) Tennessee Blue Book – Student Edition –Chapter 2 https://tnsoshistory.com/chapter2
2) Cumberland Pioneers – Images:
http://www.cumberlandpioneers.com/mediaimages/w1.jpg
http://www.cumberlandpioneers.com/mediaimages/w2.jpg
http://www.cumberlandpioneers.com/mediaimages/w3.jpg
http://www.cumberlandpioneers.com/mediaimages/p1.jpg
(Paintings of Cumberland Settlement)
Standard 5.33
Topic Assignment: Lost State of Franklin
Helpful Resources:
1) Visit My Smokies – Blog – the Lost State of Franklin:
2) University of Chicago – Penelope – History of the Lost State of Franklin – Samuel Cole Williams
Standards 5.34 and 5.35
Topic Assignment: Tennessee Becomes a State
Helpful Resources:
1) Nations Wiki – Southwest Territory:
https://nations.fandom.com/wiki/Southwest_Territory
2) Kiddle – Kids Encyclopedia Facts – Southwest Territory: https://kids.kiddle.co/Southwest_Territory
3) TN Gen Web Project – Letters from Forgotten Ancestors – Southwest Territory:
https://www.tngenweb.org/tnletters/territories/sw-terr.html (Includes map of Southwest Territory)
4) TN Secretary of State – From Territory to State: https://sos.tn.gov/products/territory-state
5) Teach TN History – File – Steps to Tennessee Statehood:
http://www.teachtnhistory.org/file/Steps%20to%20Tennessee%20Statehood.doc
Standard 5.36
Topic Assignment: Early Statehood of Tennessee
Helpful Resources:
1) UT Knoxville – Eportfolio – Capital Cities of Tennessee:
http://web.utk.edu/~rsmeltze/IT/IT575/eportfolio/exerI.html (Includes information on first capital)
2) TN Secretary of State – From Territory to State: https://sos.tn.gov/products/territory-state
(Includes information on first governor and year)
Standard 5.37
Topic Assignment: Tennessee in the War of 1812
Helpful Resources:
1) TN Secretary of State – Brief History of Tennessee in the War of 1812:
https://sos.tn.gov/products/tsla/brief-history-tennessee-war-1812
2) Tennessee Encyclopedia – Entry – War of 1812:
https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/war-of-1812/
Standards 5.38 and 5.39
Topic Assignment: Andrew Jackson's Tennessee
Helpful Resources:
1) Slate – Interactive Time-Lapse Map Shows How the U.S. Took More Than 1.5 Billion Acres From Native Americans:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2014/06/17/interactive_map_loss_of_indian_land.html
2) History.com – Trail of Tears: https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/trail-of-tears
3) DocsTeach – Indian Removal Act:
https://www.docsteach.org/documents?filter_searchterm=indian+removal&searchType=all&filterEras=4&filterDocTypes=&sortby=relevance&filter_order=&filter_order_Dir=&rt=YDQV6cxNAeuQ
(Numerous primary sources)
4) Library of Congress – Indian Removal Act:
https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=004/llsl004.db&recNum=458
5) Library of Congress – Map showing the lands assigned to emigrant Indians west of Arkansas and Missouri (1836):
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4051e.mf000044/?r=-0.399,0.386,1.653,0.679,0
6) Michigan State University – Union to Disunion– Indian Removal Begins:
http://projects.leadr.msu.edu/uniontodisunion/exhibits/show/andrew-jackson-and-the-trail-o/indian-removal-begins
7) Tennessee Virtual Archive – Maps at the Tennessee State Library and Archives – Map of Tennessee (1818):
https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15138coll23/id/72/