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First European

Statehood

The Confederacy

Hydroelectric Dam

MLK

Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto is the first European to arrive in what is now Tennessee.

Tennessee is the 16th state admitted into statehood on June 1st, 1976.

Tennessee is the last state to join the Confederacy during the Civil War. Five years later, it is the first state to be readmitted by the Union.

The first hydroelectric dam in the state is built by the Tennessee Valley Authority. It brought economic development to the state and controlled flooding.

Civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was Memphis to support the strike of African-American sanitation workers who protested for equal wages.

History of Tennessee

First European

Statehood

The Confederacy

Hydroelectric Dam

MLK

Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto is the first European to arrive in what is now Tennessee.

Tennessee is the 16th state admitted into statehood on June 1st, 1976.

Tennessee is the last state to join the Confederacy during the Civil War. Five years later, it is the first state to be readmitted by the Union.

The first hydroelectric dam in the state is built by the Tennessee Valley Authority. It brought economic development to the state and controlled flooding.

Civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was Memphis to support the strike of African-American sanitation workers who protested for equal wages.

History of Tennessee

First European

Statehood

The Confederacy

Hydroelectric Dam

MLK

Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto is the first European to arrive in what is now Tennessee.

Tennessee is the 16th state admitted into statehood on June 1st, 1976.

Tennessee is the last state to join the Confederacy during the Civil War. Five years later, it is the first state to be readmitted by the Union.

The first hydroelectric dam in the state is built by the Tennessee Valley Authority. It brought economic development to the state and controlled flooding.

Civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was Memphis to support the strike of African-American sanitation workers who protested for equal wages.

History of Tennessee

First European

Statehood

The Confederacy

Hydroelectric Dam

MLK

Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto is the first European to arrive in what is now Tennessee.

Tennessee is the 16th state admitted into statehood on June 1st, 1976.

Tennessee is the last state to join the Confederacy during the Civil War. Five years later, it is the first state to be readmitted by the Union.

The first hydroelectric dam in the state is built by the Tennessee Valley Authority. It brought economic development to the state and controlled flooding.

Civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was Memphis to support the strike of African-American sanitation workers who protested for equal wages.

History of Tennessee