Tennessee History - Final Exam
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SOLVED (Newest 2025)a Tennessee Urbanization - Correct Answers ✅-1820s the small towns had a population of less than 2500
-1860s there were 5 towns: Knoxville, Chattanooga,
Columbia, Murfreesboro, Clarksville
-1860s there were 2 cities: Memphis and Nashville
-however, most of TN was rural and retained a key element of southerness Antebellum Agriculture - Correct Answers ✅-farms and farmlands are the heart and soul of the antebellum economy
-main products were: corn, wheat, cotton, and tobacco
-TN benefitted from the use of fertilizers, crop rotations, crop diversification, and stock breeding -local farmers formed their own clubs -started their own journal TENNESSEE FARMER -1854 established the State Agriculture Bureau -most unique aspects of antebellum TN was DIVERSIFICATION
-East TN: small farms relied on the barter system
-West TN: slave plantations and cotton cash crop
-Middle TN: small planters and big plantations
Antebellum Transportation - Correct Answers ✅-water to road to railroad 1 / 3
Tennessee History - Final Exam
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
SOLVED (Newest 2025)a
-3 rivers: Mississippi, Cumberland, and lower TN rivers
-River: utilized flatboats and keelboats -> steamboats
-West & Middle: first steamboat was General Jackson in March
1819 -East: no access to rivers so they used roads: turnpikes graded, gravel, macadam roads and toll roads were built.(1830s) -tolls were charger per person, per wagon, and per cattle.
-railroad: popular in East TN, newspaper RAIL ROAD
ADVOCATE (1830s) Antebellum Industry - Correct Answers ✅-included small and large scale industries
-small scale industries: blacksmith, tanneries, lumber mills
-large scale industries: tobacco, coal, copper mining,
machinery, railroad manufacturing
-Iron making: large industry in Upper East TN, Cumberland
Iron Works of Stewart County (largest iron company - employed nearly 100 workers) -antebellum TN was a small fraction of TN economy and tin portion of workforce b/c of capital shortage and poor transportation Antebellum Gender Relations - Correct Answers ✅-theory of separate spheres (men and women had distinct and 2 / 3
Tennessee History - Final Exam
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
SOLVED (Newest 2025)a mutually supportive roles) (men= father, provider, and public life; women= mother, wife, nurturers guardian of domestic tranquility) -women deferred to the husbands, no property rights, no vote, no political office, not allowed to serve on juries.-especially single women, poor white and slave women (had it hard) -rural settings, white women performed spinning, weaving, poultry, vegetable gardening
-white social class categories: aristocrats, yeoman, and poor
whites Antebellum Racial Divisions - Correct Answers ✅-white community always stood together; especially after the Nat Turner's Rebellion -anti slavery was not popular in TN (b/c it was a slave state and it was the backbone of the economy; 25% were slaves in West TN) -Fayette and Haywood counties slave outnumbered whites -white population tightened screws on the slave population -whites organized citizen patrols the monitored suspicious activities and made it a felony for distributing abolitionist literature -Amos Dresser lashed 2o times for distributing abolitionist literature
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