Packet 5: Bonus 3

The Timberlake Expedition targeted a group of Cherokee named for this relative location, who signed the Treaty of Long Island of the Holston with William Christian. For 10 points each:
[10h] What relative location also names a group led by Isaac Shelby that turned the tide of the Battle of Musgrove Mill?
ANSWER: Overmountain [or Overhill; accept the Overmountain Men; accept the Overhill Cherokee; accept being west of the Appalachian Mountains or west of the Blue Ridge Mountains; prompt on answers describing being near mountains]
[10m] Under the leadership of Dragging Canoe, many Overhill and Chickamauga Cherokee were defeated by John Sevier (“suh-VEER”); Sevier had just led the Overmountain Men against Patrick Ferguson at this 1780 battle that followed the Battle of Waxhaws.
ANSWER: Battle of Kings Mountain
[10e] The Cherokee ceded the Overhill towns to the US government in an 1819 treaty negotiated by this later advocate of nullification and first vice president to Andrew Jackson.
ANSWER: John C. Calhoun [or John Caldwell Calhoun; accept the Calhoun Treaty]
<Vanderbilt, American History> | E. Prelims 5 - Indiana + Vanderbilt + MIT

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