THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE TEXT SIGNERS AND LEGACY
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Settlers that moved into the rocky terrain of what is now northeastern Tennessee in the 1760’s
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Patroits
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Overmountain Men
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Loyalists
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Hessians
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Overmountain Men were those pioneers who settled on the western side of the Appalachian Mountains during the second half of the eighteenth century.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Overmountain Men of 1780 gathered from the hills and valleys of western North Carolina, including today’s northeast Tennessee, and from the Holston Valley of southwest Virginia.
Detailed explanation-3: -Overmountain men were American frontiersmen from west of the Appalachian Mountains (now Tennessee) who fought in the Revolutionary War.
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