TN banned teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution in school

Yellow fever epidemic of 1878

Caused by Mosquitoes, poor sanitation, travel

Claimed religious purpose to rid the country of immigrants.

Production of aluminum for aircraft construction

Cumberland Homesteads- Tennessee

Cooperation (co-op)/subsistence community

Built during the Great Depression/New Deal by the CCC

Great Smoky Mountain National Park

Highlander Folk School

1950s –leadership training site for civil rights activists

Birthplace of Rock N’ Roll”

Constitutional Convention of 1870

TN changed its constitution eliminate slavery

Led by SNCC, Jim Lawson, & Diane Nash

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massive aircraft production factory – employed women in large numbers
AVCO
Oak Ridge during WWII
Alcoa
TVA During WWII
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Started w/dispute between a white shopkeeper and black customer over a radio repair.
Nashville sit-ins
Tent Cities of Haywood and Fayette Countie
Norris Dam and Dale Hollow Controversies
Columbia Race Riots
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Scopes Trial of 1925
TN banned teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution in school
Clarence Darrow taught evolution in high school
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Clearance Saunders
Piggly Wiggly
McDonalds
Wendys
Kentucky Fried Chicken
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Yellow fever epidemic of 1878
Caused by Mosquitoes, poor sanitation, travel
Was least devastating in Memphis
Was most devastating in Nashville
Mostly affected the poor
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Ku Klux Klan
Weekly country music concert broadcast on WSM Radio
Claimed religious purpose to rid the country of immigrants.
Built dams flood control/electricity Tennessee River Valley.
Nobel Prize Winners in 1945 for efforts to establish the UN
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Alcoa
Production of aluminum for aircraft construction
Pushed people off their family land
became home to the 101st Airborne Division
massive aircraft production factory – employed many women
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Governor Frank Clement uses the National Guard to enforce the integration and protect the kids
Clinton High School
University of Mississippi
University of Alabama
Little Rock High School
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W C Handy
Father of the Blues
1st African American elected to the TN General Assembly
Created Self-Service grocery shopping
Senate Committee investigating organized crime
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Declared school segregation unconstitutional
Korematsu v. US
Brown v. Board of Education
US v. Nixon
Plessy v. Ferguson
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Gov’t forced all Japanese ancestry – citizens included- into internment camps/prison camps
Bakke v. University of California
Brown v. Topeka Board of Education
Korematsu v. US
Bush v. Gore
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Cumberland Homesteads- Tennessee
Made country music popular broadcasting the Grand Ole Opry
Cooperation (co-op)/subsistence community
Storage of nuclear materials.
Created by TVA eminent domain
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Oak Ridge during WWI
home of the 101st Airborne Division
Troop training facility
POW camp
Manhattan Project
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Built during the Great Depression/New Deal by the CCC
Alcoa
Ft Campbell
Great Smoky Mountain National Park
Cumberland Homesteads- Tennessee
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Highlander Folk School
1950s –leadership training site for civil rights activists
12 students enroll and it causes racial resistance
School for extracting material needed in atomic bombs.
POW Camp - it held 24,000 prisoners of war.
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Sun Studios
R&B and Soul music studio in Memphis
Birthplace of Rock N’ Roll”
Weekly country music concert broadcast on WSM Radio
country music station in Nashville
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Brought national attention to organized crime problem in US
Elvis Presley
Robert Kennedy
Estes Kefauver
Peyton Manning
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Constitutional Convention of 1870
TN banned teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution in school
Brought national attention to organized crime problem in US
National attention forced the US end segregation
TN changed its constitution eliminate slavery
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became home to the 101st Airborne Division
Alcoa
Camp Forrest
Ft Campbell
Cumberland Homesteads- Tennessee
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Nashville sit-ins
Led by SNCC, Jim Lawson, & Diane Nash
Made country music popular broadcasting the Grand Ole Opry
Weekly country music concert broadcast on WSM Radio
led by TN. Senator Estes Kefauver

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