History UsefulNotes / Tennessee

* Music/{{Whitechapel}}

Ah, the land of Dixie and the Volunteer State, '''Tennessee''' is settled right in the middle of the South. It borders Kentucky, UsefulNotes/{{Virginia}}, UsefulNotes/NorthCarolina, [[UsefulNotes/GeorgiaUSA Georgia]], Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, ''and'' Missouri. The only other state to border as many states as Tennessee is Missouri[[note]]which borders Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska[[/note]]. Tennessee is a great representation of {{Eagleland}}, showing up in fiction as both the [[SweetHomeAlabama kind]] and... ''[[TheDeepSouth less kind]]'' versions of the South. It's also the home of CountryMusic, with its capital at UsefulNotes/{{Nashville}}. Its biggest city is also Nashville, and its second biggest city is Memphis, a big name from Ancient Egypt. Other cities include [[RunningGag big names shared with other more famous cities]] like [[UsefulNotes/{{Greece}} Athens]], UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}, [[UsefulNotes/SouthCarolina Columbia]], [[UsefulNotes/GeorgiaUSA Savannah]], Fayetteville, and Jackson.

* Wrestling/{{Kane}} (born in Spain as a MilitaryBrat, but has lived most of his adult life in East Tennessee)

You may know this state for Whiskey and Music/ElvisPresley[[note]]who was actually born and raised in Mississippi, but his family moved to Memphis when he was 13, and he lived there the rest of his life[[/note]]. Since 2016, it has been one of only two states[[note]]The other is UsefulNotes/{{California}}[[/note]] to have given its name to a chemical element, the synthetic halogen [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessine Tennessine]] (Element 118); Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Vanderbilt University were heavily involved in its first synthesis.

You may know this state for Whiskey and Music/ElvisPresley[[note]]who was actually born and raised in Mississippi, but his family moved to Memphis when he was 13, and he lived there the rest of his life[[/note]].

Ah, the land of Dixie and the Volunteer State, '''Tennessee''' is settled right in the middle of the South. It borders Kentucky, UsefulNotes/{{Virginia}}, UsefulNotes/NorthCarolina, [[UsefulNotes/GeorgiaUSA Georgia]], Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, ''and'' Missouri. The only other state to border as many states as Tennessee is Missouri[[note]]which borders Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska[[/note]]. Tennessee is a great representation of {{Eagleland}}, showing up in fiction as both the [[SweetHomeAlabama kind]] and... ''[[TheDeepSouth less kind]]'' versions of the South. It's also the home of CountryMusic, with its capital at UsefulNotes/{{Nashville}}. Its biggest city is also Nashville, and its second biggest city is Memphis, [[NamesTheSame a big name from Ancient Egypt]]. Other cities include [[RunningGag big names shared with other more famous cities]] like [[UsefulNotes/{{Greece}} Athens]], UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}, [[UsefulNotes/SouthCarolina Columbia]], [[UsefulNotes/GeorgiaUSA Savannah]], Fayetteville, and Jackson.

* Creator/SamuelLJackson (Born in UsefulNotes/Washington, D.C. but raised in Chattanooga)

* Creator/SamuelLJackson

* Creator/CybilShepherd

* Creator/ChrisHardwick (born in Louisville, KY, but raised in Memphis)

You may remember this state for Whiskey and Music/ElvisPresley[[note]]who was actually born and raised in Mississippi, but his family moved to Memphis when he was 13 and he lived there the rest of his life[[/note]].

Ah, the land of Dixie and the Volunteer State, '''Tennessee''' is settled right in the middle of the South. It borders Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, ''and'' Missouri. The only other state to border as many states as Tennessee is Missouri[[note]]which borders Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska[[/note]]. Tennessee is a great representation of {{Eagleland}}, showing up in fiction as both the [[SweetHomeAlabama kind]] and... ''[[TheDeepSouth less kind]]'' versions of the South. It's also the home of CountryMusic, with its capital at UsefulNotes/{{Nashville}}. Its biggest city is also Nashville, and its second biggest city is Memphis, [[NamesTheSame a big name from Ancient Egypt]]. Other cities include [[RunningGag big names shared with other more famous cities]] like [[UsefulNotes/{{Greece}} Athens]], UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}, [[UsefulNotes/SouthCarolina Columbia]], [[UsefulNotes/GeorgiaUSA Savannah]], Fayetteville, and Jackson.

* [[Wrestling/JerryLawler The King]]

* Creator/PeytonManning (played football for the University of Tennessee-Knoxville)

Consists of all 27 counties located within the Eastern Time Zone, plus Bledsoe, Cumberland, and Marion Counties on Central Time. The region is bounded mainly by the edge of the Cumberland Plateau, which was a key barrier to trade and travel for much of the state's early history. The region lies within UsefulNotes/{{Appalachia}}, with all the baggage (and tropes) that go with it. Most notably, East Tennessee was a hotbed of pro-Union sentiment in the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Civil War]]. In fact, future [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidents President]] UsefulNotes/AndrewJohnson, who moved to the region as a teenager and lived there for the rest of his life (when not serving in Washington), was the only sitting U.S. Senator from a Confederate state who didn't resign his seat when his state seceded. To this day, the region's demographics largely match Appalachia; close to 90% of the population is non-Hispanic white (compared to roughly 75% statewide), and only about 6% is African American (about 17% statewide).

Ah, the land of Dixie and the Volunteer State, '''Tennessee''' is settled right in the middle of the South. It borders Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, ''and'' Missouri. The only other state to border as many states as Tennessee is Missouri[[note]]which borders Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska[[/note]]. Tennessee is a great representation of {{Eagleland}}, showing up in fiction as both the [[SweetHomeAlabama kind]] and... ''[[TheDeepSouth less kind]]'' versions of the South. It's also the home of CountryMusic, with its capital at UsefulNotes/{{Nashville}}. Its biggest city is Memphis, [[NamesTheSame a big name from Ancient Egypt]]. Other cities include [[RunningGag big names shared with other more famous cities]] like [[UsefulNotes/{{Greece}} Athens]], UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}, [[UsefulNotes/SouthCarolina Columbia]], [[UsefulNotes/GeorgiaUSA Savannah]], Fayetteville, and Jackson.

Ah, the land of Dixie and the Volunteer State, '''Tennessee''' is settled right in the middle of the South. It borders Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas ''and'' Missouri. The only other state to border as many states as Tennessee is Missouri[[note]]which borders Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska[[/note]]. Tennessee is a great representation of {{Eagleland}}, showing up in fiction as both the [[SweetHomeAlabama kind]] and ...''[[TheDeepSouth less kind]]'' versions of the South. It's also the home of CountryMusic, with its capital at UsefulNotes/{{Nashville}}. Other cities include [[NamesTheSame big names from other states]] like [[UsefulNotes/{{Greece}} Athens]], UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}, [[UsefulNotes/SouthCarolina Columbia]], [[UsefulNotes/GeorgiaUSA Savannah]], Fayetteville, and Jackson. The biggest city is Memphis, [[RunningGag a big name from Ancient Egypt]].

Tennessee is named after a Cherokee settlement and the nearby river, this name given to a county in then-North Carolina before the State split down the Great Smoky Mountains, creating Tennessee. Before European expansion into the area, Tennessee was populated by the Muskogee and also, later, the Cherokee (some early Appalachian nomads, but most of the Cherokee population of Tennessee arrived after they were removed from UsefulNotes/{{Georgia|USA}}). Tennessee was first settled by the British in the 1750s, but it wasn't until the early 1780s that it separated from North Carolina (as the State of Franklin).

Fort Loudon was under constant sabotage from the Cherokee since the outbreak of the Anglo-Cherokee war. The tribes often orchestrated pranks to injure the settlers or to keep out supplies. In late 1759, the British prepared the Fort -- their Westernmost frontier and so battle target -- for a long hide-out, bringing in men and food. The siege of the Cherokee began in early 1760, once they knew of the garrison prisoners being killed. They, too, began a camp-out that lasted for months, also launching measures to prevent the relief force from Virginia from reaching the Fort or providing it with food. In mid-1760, satisfied that the British must be out of supplies (and they nearly were), the Cherokee council planned an attempt to lure them with corn. However, one leader who had consistently been friendly with the British snuck to the Fort and revealed the plan, which was subsequently postponed. At the end of the summer, the British leaders arranged a surrender to the Cherokee. They would leave the Fort and its equipment, abandoning the county to return to Charleston. As they were packing up, the Cherokee arrived at the settlement to taunt and harass the British, beating some. The settlers did not respond to the attack, instead choosing to abandon the Fort to camp out along the valley back to Virginia. Following them, the Cherokee ambushed the British early one morning as they slept -- they gave a surrender and the Cherokee tortured the leaders before humiliating them in front of the rest of the settlers and then killing them. Everyone else was taken prisoner and sold back to the British over the course of the year.

It was founded with the intention of becoming the 14th State, the white Watauga being staunch supporters of the Union, but were rejected. They did not achieve a two-thirds majority vote from the present States, largely because of objection from governors who did not want shared or moving borders, and because frontiersmen in other states wished to form their own new states. There was also opposition from Congress, likely because they would not be able to support a new State so soon. This had also been a prompt for the Watauga claim of their own freedom: During the Revolution, the settlers had further expanded into Tennessee, establishing a stronghold in Nashborough (yes, now Nashville), and were concerned that the poor financial state of both North Carolina and the Union would prevent them from being able to communicate with hostile native tribes or to have their newly-earned land sold to France. This was not ideal, and so when NC sent legislature into the West in order to establish the land, the intervention from what the settlers perceived to be a restrictive and disorganised governance was the final straw for them and a selection congregated to announce their independence.

Also, ever since the NC occupation, some of the Franklin people decided that they needed to establish their dominance by getting more land -- but with little time, they pretty much had to just step in and outright steal from the Cherokee. And, as history should have taught them, the Cherokee. Well, they held back their ace until 1788, when North Carolina also played their hand. The sheriff of what NC claimed was its Washington county began taking repo from the Franklin governor as "back taxes" for the land and all its fortunes. Given it was all stored in the sheriff's own kitchen, the subsequent bloody battle with three whole troops and reinforcements literally took place in his back yard. The Battle of Franklin lasted ten minutes and took place in a suburban garden. A couple of days later, the Chickamauga and Chickasaw tribes started launching surprise attacks on random towns in Franklin. Franklin wanted a loan from Spain, but fears of the state being made a Spanish territory caused NC to arrest basically all of Franklin's legislature. Their supporters may have broken them out, but they'd lost a lot of favor and retreated to friendly Cherokee land that they had settled. During this time, Franklin handed itself over to North Carolina; the former Franklin legislature swore allegiance to NC in 1789, but their supporters weren't moving.

The state is legally and popularly divided into three regions. We're not joking on the "legally" part–the regions are entrenched in the state's constitution; while the document allows the legislature to change their boundaries, this hasn't happened in more than 50 years. The state constitution contains provisions to ensure that each of the three regions enjoys representation on key state agencies and governing bodies. For example, the state's Supreme Court must have at least one justice (out of five) from each Grand Division, and can have no more than two from any one Grand Division.

!!!Leaving North Carolina... again... again