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What state is nicknamed the 'volunteer state'?
Tennessee is the Volunteer State. This is because so many people from Tennessee volunteered to help Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812.
Was Tennessee a slave state?
Yes Tennessee was a slave state. Today every state is free from slavery.
Was Tennessee a free state or the slave state in 1850?
Slave
How did tennesse become a state?
North Carolina. The North Carolina colonial charter actually gave the state a claim which extended all the way to the Pacific Ocean. I live in Buncombe County NC, in the western end of the state. At that time Buncombe was the westernmost NC county, and if you wanted to file a deed to land anywhere in what is Tennessee today, you had to file it in the Buncombe County Courthouse, until Tennessee was created in 1796.
Best southern state to live in?
Tennessee
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