Tennessee is a state in east central USA. Tennessee was originally a part of North Carolina. The first settlements were made by a company of hunters on the Watauga in the eastern part of the State in 1769. When North Carolina proposed to surrender the territory to the US Government, these settlers protested, and formed a separate State Government under the name of Frankland or Franklin. They elected a Governor, John Sevier, and a legislature which requested admission to the Union as a State. In 1788 the State Government was overthrown by the inhabitants of the State who were favorable to North Carolina, an act of amnesty was passed by the Legislature of North Carolina, and Sevier was admitted as a Senator.
In 1794 a Territorial Government was organized under provisions like those of the Ordinance of 1787, except that slavery should not be abolished. The State was admitted into the Union, on June the 1st, 1796. Knoxville was the capital until 1802, when it was changed to Nashville. During the American Civil War the State furnished 31,092 to the Union army. The State was the scene of some of the fiercest battles, as Island No 10, Nashville, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. On July the 24th, 1866, the State was restored to the Union. The population of the State in 1796 was 77,202; in. 1890 this had increased to 1,767,518.
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