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2. Find your new seat!

3. Find your new seat!

4. Find your new seat!

5. Find your new seat!

6. Find your new seat!

7. Recap: Where we’ve been…
We have journeyed from the late 1400s/early 1500s to 1783 when the Revolutionary War ended.
We have learned about the growth and spread of the colonies from 1 settlement to 13 colonies.
We learned about why the colonists became so mad with Great Britain and why they wanted their independence.

8. Where we are going…
The United States of America is now a country, independent of England.
They need to set up a government, they don’t want a king!
We are going to explore how we came to form a government and how we shaped what it looked like!

9. Creation of the Cumberland Settlement
The Wataugans: They were a group of settlers from North Carolina who settled in what is now, eastern Tennessee. They moved there and lived in the wilderness in the 1760s and 1770s.
As this group grew towards the end of the war, some of the settlers continued to push west.

11. Two expeditions into the Cumberland
James Robertson:
Left side of the class: Open your TN textbooks to page 110.
Read
Answer Do You Remember? Questions on 113.
Be ready to share your answers!
John Donelson:
Right side of the class: Open your TN textbooks to page 113.
Read (skip The Cumberland Compact)
Answer Do You Remember? Questions on 116.
Be Ready to share your answers!

12. Fort
Nashborough

13. The Cumberland Compact
As new settlers in a new area, what would you want to have in your government document.
With your partners, try and come up with three things you would want your government to address: 1. 2. 3.
Turn to page 116.

14. Cumberland Compact
The Cumberland Compact was drawn up in May of 1780 by Richard Henderson, a land speculator and representative for North Carolina on the western Virginia/North Carolina survey team.
The contract was signed in “Nashborough,” Tennessee, by 250 men of the new Cumberland settlement and established early government institutions (the infrastructure of courts, governance, and taxation) for the first settlers of the Tennessee territory.
The Compact called for the creation of a civil government, and represented the settlers’ desire for self-governance and independence from North Carolina.
Yet only a small part of the document was devoted to governance; it was in large measure a contract dictating a legal framework for land transfers. For instance, it dictated the legal grounds by which title to Native American land would be transferred to the new settlers, some of whom were land speculators.

15. Fort Nashborough