The Tennessee History Day competition in Memphis EIGHTH GRADE   Tennessee has the most interesting history of any state in America -- it's violent and it's complicated and it's even bizarre at times. As you read it you'll find yourself amazed, and sad, and angry, and proud, sometimes at the same time. So let's get started. Click on the links below to be taken to each chapter. (The paper saving version contains much smaller pictures; you may prefer that version if you are printing.) Intro             Whose history is it, anyway?              Paper-saving version of Intro One              What we know from what we dig up       Paper-saving version Two             Tribes and clans             Paper-saving version Three           The first Europeans         Paper-saving version Four             Tennessee's bloody origins       Paper-saving version Five              New nation and statehood       Paper-saving version Six                The wild west era          Paper-saving version Seven           Andrew Jackson       Paper-saving version Eight             The Trail of Tears       Paper-saving version Nine             Railroads and Westward Expansion      Paper-saving version Ten              The coming war      Paper-saving version Eleven          Slaughter and chaos         Paper-saving version Twelve         Reconstruction        Paper-saving version This Eighth Grade Text was written by Bill Carey in close consultation with the following people: Steve Reddick (Eighth Grade Teacher, Oak Ridge City Schools), Brenda Ables (Social Studies Coordinator for the Department of Education), Amy Byrum (parent, Mt. Juliet), Dr. Pamela Bobo (assistant professor of history, Tennessee State University); and Dr. Derek Frisby (assistant professor of history, Middle Tennessee State University).