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  1. Governor Nominating Conventions in Tennessee Spark Exchange between State Democrats and Republicans
    date April 3, 1890map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags Race-Relations

    In the time leading up to both the Democratic and Republican nominating conventions for state governor, each party attempted to sort out its ideal choice for candidate. Each party faced the recent legislative actions regarding enfranchisement and elections. As a whole, the Democrats backed the poll-tax law recently enacted by the state legislature and favored the pending registration law. On the...

  2. Kentucky's Senate passes joint resolution to colonize “free people of color'
    date January, 1829map FRANKLIN, Kentuckytags African-Americans, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations

    In January, the Cherokee Phoenix and Indians' Advocate reported the outcome of the Kentucky State Senate's Joint Resolution. There were only three dissenting votes against these two measures. The first measure urged Kentucky's statesmen in Washington to endeavor Congress to appropriate money and aid, “so far is consistent with the Constitution of the United States, in colonizing the free people...

  3. Formation of Nashville and Davidson County Temperance Society
    date April, 1829map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags Church/Religious-Activity

    Many prominent Nashvillians, including Phillip Lindsley, William Hume, and Robert Whyte, formed The Nashville and Davidson County Temperance Society. This society was formed as an auxiliary to the American Temperance Society. The American Temperance Society grew rapidly during this time period and many new auxiliaries appeared. The spread of a national temperance society reveals the growing importance...

  4. Governor McMinn of Tennessee explains his Treaty with the Cherokee Indians to the state legislature
    date October 12, 1817map INDIAN LANDS, Tennesseetags Race-Relations

    In explaining the treaty to the legislature, McMinn focused also on the relationship between Tennessee and North Carolina, as well as both of their relationships (and that of the United States) with the Cherokees. The Cherokees had occupied what McMinn estimated to be five to seven million acres of land between the Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers. He encouraged the Tennessee legislature to enact...

  5. Unionists Burn Bridges in Eastern Tennessee
    date November 8, 1861map KNOX, Tennesseetags Migration/Transportation, War

    On November 8, 1861, a group of East Tennessee Unionists led by William Blount Carter burned five bridges to hamper Confederate troop movements. Carter, a Presbyterian minister, had spoken with Lincoln about a plan to burn eleven key bridges between Alabama and Virginia. Many iron furnaces were located in Alabama, producing confederate cannon. Carter's hope was for Union troops to attack Knoxville...

  6. Farmers' Alliance Leaders in Tennessee Work to Influence Democratic Party before State Governor's Election
    date January 1, 1890 to July 15, 1890map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags Agriculture

    After its establishment in July 1889, membership of the Farmers' Alliance grew rapidly and reached over 100,000 people in 1890. The Alliance widely proclaimed their goal to influence the Democratic Party. Throughout the year the Alliance engaged in a publicity campaign to sway Party actions and nominations. Newspapers played an important part in this publicity campaign. The Nashville Banner included...

  7. Senator Martin Gives Speech Denouncing Liquidation of Bank of Tennessee
    date January 22, 1846map WASHINGTON, Virginiatags Economy

    In early 1846, the Bank of Tennessee- which was located in the state capital of Nashville- had run into great debts and was facing liquidation, which would be disastrous for many of the Tennesseans it served. State senator Martin gave an impassioned speech against this bill for liquidation being debated in the Senate, and this speech was reported in the Nashville Union late in January. Martin agreed...

  8. Memphis & Charleston Railroad Chartered in Tennessee
    date February 2, 1845 to February 2, 1846map SHELBY, Tennesseetags Economy, Migration/Transportation

    The Memphis & Charleston Railroad was chartered on February 2, marking the first rail route from inland Memphis, Tennessee east toward Charleston, South Carolina and the Atlantic Ocean. Although the railroad made little progress until into the 1850s, it was important for the region not only because it linked much of what was still a “frontier' state with the rest of the coastal South but also...

  9. Grundy and McMinn and the New Bank of the State of Tennessee
    date 1820map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags Economy

    In 1820, Joseph McMinn, a farmer, state legislator, Indian agent, and governor, and Felix Grundy, a Congressman, U.S. Senator and Nashville Democrat leader, suggested to create a New Bank of the State of Tennessee; it was the central feature of his program while he was candidate for a seat in the state senate. This bank was supposed to be better than the old one, based in Knoxville: the state should...

  10. Formation of the Ku Klux Klan
    date April 13, 1867 to February 25, 1869map WILSON, Tennesseetags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    On April 13, 1867 the Tennessee Conservatives held a convention in Gallatin. The convention had two speakers: the Honourable Bailey Peyton and an influential African American preacher. Reports on the convention stated that the preacher stood up, declared the present Republican Governor Brownlow a colored man in disguise, and encouraged the few African American present to vote for him. The proclamation...

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