Tennessee History
Tennessee was admitted to the
Union in 1796 as the 16th state, and was created by taking the north
and south borders of North Carolina and extending them with only one
small deviation to the Mississippi River, Tennessee's western
boundary. Tennessee seceded from the Union on June 8, 1861. After
the American Civil War, Tennessee adopted a new constitution that
abolished slavery (February 22, 1865), ratified the Fourteenth
Amendment to the United States Constitution on July 18, 1866, and
was the first state readmitted to the Union (July 24 of the same
year).
Major historical events that
occurred in state:
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Tennessee was
the only state that seceded from the Union that did not have a
military governor after the American Civil War, mostly due to the
influence of President Andrew Johnson, a native of the state, who
was Lincoln's vice president and succeeded due to the
assassination.
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In 1897, the
state celebrated its centennial of statehood (ignoring the small
question of the Civil War) with a great exposition.
Tennessee History
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