Term
|
Definition
Movement to limit the consumption of alcohol
Later became a movement to make alcohol illegal
Whiskey and alcohol were old crafts in TN
Four Mile Law |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
1877
Sale of alcohol within a four mile radius of a school prohibited
Law extended to cover most of the state |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Founded in 1889 by Temperance Movement activists |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Newspaper owned by Edward Carmack
Launched print attacks on Governor Malcolm Patterson
November 9, 1908 - Gun fights in Nashville that left Carmack dead and 2 of Patterson's advisors dead; Carmack became a prohibition martyr |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Owned The Tennessean
Governor candidate supported prohibition
Died in a gun fight
Became prohibition martyr
November 9, 1908 - Gun fights in Nashville that left Carmack dead and 2 of Patterson's advisors dead; Carmack became a prohibition martyr |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Winner of the election
Opposed prohibition
November 9, 1908 - Gun fights in Nashville that left Carmack dead and 2 of Patterson's advisors dead; Carmack became a prohibition martyr |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Elected governor in 1910 and 1912
Republican and prohibitionist
TN stayed "dry" from 1909 until the repeal of national prohibition in 1933 |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Roots in middle-class
Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association founded in 1906
Large opposition against women's suffrage, mostly from women
Suffragists in TN were moderate in their tactics and gained limited voting rights before the national attention came
In 1920, the House voted for ratification of the 19th Amendment
Women voters in TN made their votes count towards Warren Harding in the 1920 presidential election - first time since 1868 that TN voted for a Republican |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
1925 - legislation passed as part of the general education bill that forbade teaching evolution in public schools
Boosters in Dayton created a plan to have John T. Scopes, a high school biology teacher, violate the law and go to trial
Part of a publicity scheme that drew national and international attention
William Jennings Bryan - prosecutor
Clarence Darrow - defense for Scopes
Northern press called TN the "Monkey State"
Wave of religious revivals swept TN
Scopes convicted and fined $100 that was later rescinded by the state court of appeals
Traditional, rural people felt anxiety over the threat posed by modern science |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Biology teacher
Dayton, TN
Purposely violated the law forbidding evolution from being taught in public schools |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Prosecutor in the John T. Scopes trial |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
100,000 Tennesseans volunteered or were drafted into the armed services
4,000 Tennesseans died in combat or from disease
Alvin C. York of Fentress County |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
From Fentress County
Subdued an entire German machine gun regiment in the Argonne Forest
Received Congressional Medal of Honor
Symbol of patriotism |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Governor who served 3 terms due in part to the rural and small town voters
Streamlines government agencies
Reduced the state property tax while imposing an excise tax on corporate profits
Undertook massive road building program
TN had no state supported high schools and teacher salaries were extremely low
1913 - one-third of state revenues were to education
County high schools were established
Compulsory school attendance law was passed and eight-month school term created
Normal schools for teachers built and later became four-year colleges |
|
|
Term
| 1913 compulsory schooling |
|
Definition
| Compulsory school attendance law was passed and eight-month school term was created |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Normal schools for teachers were built and alter became four-year colleges |
|
|
Term
| Stock Market Crash, October 1929 |
|
Definition
Considered the start of the Great Depression
In TN, economic hardship started before the Crash
Drought and stagnant farm markets hurt TN's economy
System of tenancy, landlord stores, and scrip money began to collapse |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Started by the Stock Market Crash in October 1929
Ended with the economic stimulus of WWII
Henry Horton - governor during the Depression
Franklin Roosevelt - president during the Depression |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Governor during the Great Depression
Almost got impeached because of his ties to Rogers Caldwell and Luke Lea
Caldwell liquidated the savings of thousands of depositors and $7 million in state funds - banking firm failed in the Great Depression
Lea, a newspaper publisher, was convicted of fraud and sent to prison |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| President during the Great Depression |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Former Memphis mayor
Led campaign to impeach Horton
Assumed the role of the "boss" of state politics as well as in Shelby County
A person must have permission from Crump to run for governor or senator between 1932 and 1948 |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Rayon plant in Kingsport
Displaced country people found jobs at Eastman Kodak during the Great Depression |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Won election for governor in 1936 with 60,128 votes from Shelby County
Only 861 votes for his opponent
Due to the $2 poll tax that kept voter turnout low, but Crump paid the tax for compliant voters, especially in Shelby County |
|
|
Term
| Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) |
|
Definition
Agency created in 1933 headquartered in Knoxville
Pushed to creation by Nebraska Senator George Norris
Plan to develop the Tennessee River Valley
Building hydroelectric dams and coal-fired power plant to produce electricity
Inexpensive electricity to 60,000 TN farm households |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Pushed the creation of the TVA |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
First major project of TVA
Located on Clinch River in Anderson and Campbell Counties
Named in honor of Senator George Norris |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Hydroelectric dam created by TVA
Located on the Tennessee River in North Carolina
Finished in 1944 |
|
|
Term
| Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
|
Definition
420,000 acres of forested, mountainous land along the Appalachian range set aside in the 1930s
Displaced about 4,000 mountain people, including those in Cades Cove |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Great Smoky Mountains National Park displaced about 4,000 mountain people, including those in Cades Cove |
|
|
Term
| President Franklin D. Roosevelt |
|
Definition
Democratic president during the Great Depression
Dedicated Great Smoky Mountain National Park |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Tennessean Congressman
Served 12 years as Roosevelt's Secretary of State
One of the chief architects of the United Nations
Received the Nobel Peace Prize |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Depression ended with the economic stimulus of WWII
Employed 10% (308,199 men and women) of the state in the armed service
Most of those remaining worked on war-related production |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Shell-loading plant - Milan
Vultee Aircraft works - Nashville
TVA projects - East TN |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
December 7, 1941 - bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Naval military base
Killed approximately 2,500 people
US entered into WWII |
|
|
Term
| Manhattan Project: Oak Ridge, TN |
|
Definition
Military's top secret project to build an atomic weapon
Research and production on Oak Ridge, TN
Oak Ridge community was created entirely from the project, growing to 70,000 people in 4 years |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Inexpensive power to the Tennessee River Valley
TVA, resources, and a work force not tied to the land encouraged industrialization in TN
By 1963, TN ranked as the 16th largest industrial state |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
To meet demands of Korean War, TVA built 11 coal-fired steam generating plants
Feeding plants with strip-mine coal
Created more air pollution
Became world's largest facility of nuclear power
Eventually closed down 11 of TVA's reactors
Most of nuclear program became a write-off |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
August 1, 1946 - primary election day
Street battle between ex-GIs and supporters of the entrenched political machine in McMinn County
Armed veterans laid siege to the jail
Represented statewide political cleanup - old strategies of boss control were weakening |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Returned at chief executive in 1948 after defeating the candidate picked up by Edward Crump
GIs helped vote him in
Signaled end of Crump's boss influence - Crump still held power in Shelby County, but held no power in the rest of the state |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Congressman
In 1948, elected to the US Senate seat after defeating Crump's candidate |
|
|
Term
| Frank Goad Clement, Buford Ellington |
|
Definition
Clement took Browning's seat in the 1952 election
Constitutional revision made governor's term 4 years instead of 2
Ellington, Clement's friend and campaign manager, would alternate terms as governor for the next 2 decades |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
NAACP lawyer
Helped 25 black defendants accused of inciting violence in Columbia to be acquitted |
|
|
Term
| Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954 |
|
Definition
1954 Supreme Court decision that ended segregated schools
Conflict - Clinton, TN |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Black parents filed a suit in Federal district court to give their children the right to attend high school in Clinton instead of bused to Knoxville
Judge Robert Taylor ordered Clinton to desegregate their schools
12 black students registered that fall
3 bombs went off at school a year later |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
May 9, 1960 - Rev. Martin Luther King spoke to a large audience at Fisk University to preach on civil rights
May 10, 1960 - Downtown stores in Nashville opened their lunch counters on an integrated basis
Nashville became the first major city in the South to begin desegregating its public facilities |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
May 9, 1960 - King spoke to a large audience at Fisk University on civil rights
April 4, 1968 - King was assassinated in Memphis at the Lorraine Motel |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| 1965 - Willis, Jr. became the first African-American representative elected to the General Assembly in 65 years |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Governor from 1975-1979
Administration seen as corrupt: liked to play favorites, pardoned a convicted killer in a double murder whose father worked for Blanton, refused to answer negative questions from the media |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Elected to US Senate in 1966
Became leader of the Senate and eventually became the chief of staff in the Reagan White House |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Elected governor in 1978
Took office early because of the Blanton Administration
Later became the Secretary of Education under George H. W. Bush |
|
|
Term
| Nissan Corporation of Tokyo |
|
Definition
In 1980, Nissan announced plans to build the largest truck assembly plant in the world in Smyrna
By 1994, 69 Japanese manufacturers with investments in excess of $4 billion and over 27,000 employees had established operations in TN |
|
|
Term
| Saturn Corporation of Spring Hill |
|
Definition
| June 1987 - Saturn completed a $2.1 billion facility near Spring Hill |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Won a Pulitzer Prize in 1977 for Roots
Most successful book by a Tennessean
Largely responsible for reviving interest in family history |
|
|
Term
| Elvis Presley, Memphis Sound |
|
Definition
"King of Rock-n-Roll" from Memphis
Launched a new era in popular music in the 1950s
Elvis and the rhythm-and-blues became known as the "Memphis Sound" |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Elvis's home in Memphis
Most visited celebrity museum in the country |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
In 1925, WSM, a Nashville radio station, began broadcasting a weekly program of live music known as the Grand Ole Opry
Began broadcasting live from the Grand Ole Opry in 1974 |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Tennessean who performed with the Grand Ole Opry for over 50 years
Also performed on the television show Hee Haw |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Tennessean singer and fiddler
Joined Grand Ole Opry in 1938
First living person inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Tennessee whiskey
One of the world's best selling liquors
Distillery based in Lynchburg, TN |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| First woman to be elected to statewide political office as Public Service Commissioner |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
First African American woman to practice surgery in the South
First to win election to the Tennessee General Assembly |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Winner of 3 gold medals at the 1960 Olympic Games |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Elected to the US House of Representatives in 1976
Became vice president in 1992
Ran for president in 2000 and lost |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Former Nashville mayor
Elected governor in 2002 |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Kingston, TN: capital for a day |
|
Definition
September 21, 1807 - Kingston was TN's state capital for a day
Fulfilling an agreement with the Cherokee
The tribe was led to believe Kingston would be the capital if they ceded the land in and around Roane County |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Was a federal frontier outpost at what is now Kingston, TN
Constructed in 1797
Served as an interaction point between the Cherokee and the US government |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Agency created in 1933 headquartered in Knoxville
Pushed to creation by Nebraska Senator George Norris
Plan to develop the Tennessee River Valley - building hydroelectric dams and coal-fire power plants to produce electricity; inexpensive electricity to 60,000 farm households in TN |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Established in 1942
In Anderson and Roane Counties
1942 - the US Federal Government began acquiring the area for the Manhattan Project
Research and production of the first atomic bombs took place here |
|
|
