It also required both houses of state legislatures to be based on population for representation and not geographic districts such as counties. The Nashville Basin is characterized by rich, fertile farm country and great diversity of natural wildlife. In 2016, the element tennessine was named for the state, largely in recognition of the roles played by Oak Ridge, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Tennessee in the element’s discovery.[16]. Please log in to access our additional functions, *Duration: 12 months, billed annually, single license, The ideal entry-level account for individual users. It is not known whether this was the same town as the one encountered by Juan Pardo, although recent research suggests that Pardo's "Tanasqui" was located at the confluence of the Pigeon River and the French Broad River, near modern Newport. Tennessee borders eight other states: Kentucky and Virginia to the north; North Carolina to the east; Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi on the south; Arkansas and Missouri on the Mississippi River to the west. ", US Census Bureau, Resident population of Tennessee in 2019, by race and ethnicity Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/594868/tennessee-population-ethnicity-race/ (last visited November 07, 2020), Resident population of Tennessee in 2019, by race and ethnicity, Population of selected European countries 2020, Population of the United Kingdom 1971-2019, Population of the United Kingdom (UK) 2019, by country, Urban and rural population of the UK from 1960-2019, United Kingdom (UK): population density 2019, by country, Number of live births in the United Kingdom 2000-2018, Total fertility rate in the United Kingdom (UK) 2000-2018, Average age of mothers at childbirth in the United Kingdom 2000-2018, Average age of mother at childbirth England and Wales 2018, by child number, Marital status of new mothers in England and Wales in 2000-2018, Teenage pregnancy rates in England and Wales 1990-2018, by age, Sole registrations of live births in England and Wales 2000-2018, Location of death in England and Wales in 2018, Life expectancy in the United Kingdom, by gender 2000-2018, Life expectancy in the United Kingdom, by gender and country 2015-2018, Annual change in life expectancy at birth in the United Kingdom (UK) 1981-2018, Infant mortality rate in the United Kingdom 2000-2018, Infant mortalities in the United Kingdom 2000-2018, Population of counties in England in 2019, Population of council areas in Scotland 2019, Population of local government districts in Northern Ireland 2019, Population of largest urban areas in the United Kingdom (UK) 2019, Population of Wisconsin, by race and ethnicity 2019, Population of Michigan, by race and ethnicity 2019, Population of Missouri, by race and ethnicity 2019, Population of Minnesota, by race and ethnicity 2019, Population of Maryland, by race and ethnicity 2019, Population of Indiana, by race and ethnicity 2019, Population of Colorado, by race and ethnicity 2019, Population of Virginia, by race and ethnicity 2019, United Kingdom (UK) population of Chinese-born inhabitants 2009-2017, Number of families in the U.S. by number of children and ethnic group 2014, Number of U.S. cities, towns, villages by population size 2019, Regional UK population forecast: North East England 2016-2041, Population forecast for London (UK) 2019-2041, Very elderly share of total population in the United Kingdom (UK) 2013-2060, Find your information in our database containing over 20,000 reports, Tools and Tutorials explained in our Media Centre, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone.

This area of lowlands, flood plains, and swamp land is sometimes referred to as the Delta region. As more white settlers moved into Tennessee, they came into increasing conflict with Native American tribes. East Tennessee has several important transportation links with Middle and West Tennessee, as well as the rest of the nation and the world, including several major airports and interstates. Because Tennessee had ratified the Fourteenth Amendment, it was the only one of the formerly secessionist states that did not have a military governor during the Reconstruction period. In February 1861, secessionists in Tennessee's state government—led by Governor Isham Harris—sought voter approval for a convention to sever ties with the United States, but Tennessee voters rejected the referendum by a 54–46% margin. Memphis fell to the Union in June, following a naval battle on the Mississippi River in front of the city. Tennessee's Constitution requires that each County have an elected Sheriff. [13], Tennessee furnished more soldiers for the Confederate Army than any other state besides Virginia, and more soldiers for the Union Army than the rest of the Confederacy combined. Pardo recorded the name "Tanasqui" from a local Indian village, which evolved to the state's current name. A full-scale replica of the Parthenon was constructed for the celebration, located in what is now Nashville's Centennial Park.

In 1900 African Americans comprised 23.8 percent of the state's population, concentrated in Middle and West Tennessee. After the formal end of Reconstruction, the struggle over power in Southern society continued. In the 2000 presidential election, Vice President Al Gore, a Democratic U.S. Tennessee is the 36th largest by area and the 16th most populous of the 50 states. *Excludes 65,000 Jews who live in Florida for 3-7 months of the year and are counted in their primary state of residence. [105] Major attractions in Memphis include Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley, Beale Street, the National Civil Rights Museum, the Memphis Zoo, and the Stax Museum of American Soul Music. [49] In the Cherokee language, the event is called Nunna daul Isunyi,"the Trail Where We Cried". [104]:17 Forty-four percent of stays in the state were "day trips", 25% stayed one night, 15% stayed two nights, and 11% stayed four or more nights. Tennessee was admitted to the Union as the 16th state on June 1, 1796. In 1960, around 3.68 million people lived in Tennessee. Cargo services in Tennessee are primarily served by CSX Transportation, which has a hump yard in Nashville called Radnor Yard. [24] Other sources differ on the origin of the state nickname; according to The Columbia Encyclopedia,[25] the name refers to volunteers for the Mexican–American War from 1846 to 1848.

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Clingmans Dome, the state's highest point, is located in this region.

In 1897, Tennessee celebrated its centennial of statehood (though one year late of the 1896 anniversary) with a great exposition in Nashville. [144][145][146] After decades in which urban populations had been underrepresented in many state legislatures, this significant ruling led to an increased (and proportional) prominence in state politics by urban and, eventually, suburban, legislators and statewide officeholders in relation to their population within the state. The state constitution allows no more than two justices of the five-member Tennessee Supreme Court to be from one Grand Division and a similar rule applies to certain commissions and boards. The ideal entry-level account for individual users. Most of West Tennessee remained Indian land until the Chickasaw Cession of 1818, when the Chickasaw ceded their land between the Tennessee River and the Mississippi River.

These school districts operate under the direction of the Tennessee Department of Education. West of the Highland Rim and Nashville Basin is the Gulf Coastal Plain, which includes the Mississippi embayment. [63] That same year Non-Hispanic whites were 75.6% of the population, compared to 63.7% of the population nationwide. [44] The names of the cultural groups who inhabited the area between first settlement and the time of European contact are unknown, but several distinct cultural phases have been named by archaeologists, including Archaic (8000–1000 BC), Woodland (1000 BC – 1000 AD), and Mississippian (1000–1600 AD), whose chiefdoms were the cultural predecessors of the Muscogee people who inhabited the Tennessee River Valley before Cherokee migration into the river's headwaters.