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Tennessee's Policy In The Removal Of The Cherokee, Minnie Hazel Myers Aug 1937

Tennessee's Policy In The Removal Of The Cherokee, Minnie Hazel Myers

Masters Theses

PREFACE: Indian removal was one of the most vital problems in the early history of the State of Tennessee. When this state came into the Union she had title to only two widely separated triangles of land, one in northern Middle Tennessee, the other in East Tennessee. The Indians held title to all other lands within her limits, and these lands practically surrounded the white settlements. Squatters who settled upon Indian soil and holders ot North Carolina land warrants petitioned the Federal Government to purchase Indian land; public officials pleaded for the purchase of Indian land to aid in the …


An Analysis Of Certain Relationships Between Intelligence Quotients, English Placement Test Scores, And Scholastic Averages Of Students Enrolled In Modern Foreign Languages, 1930-1936, University Of Tennessee, Emma Ruth Ensor Tallent Aug 1937

An Analysis Of Certain Relationships Between Intelligence Quotients, English Placement Test Scores, And Scholastic Averages Of Students Enrolled In Modern Foreign Languages, 1930-1936, University Of Tennessee, Emma Ruth Ensor Tallent

Masters Theses

(From the Definition and Scope of the Study)

At the outset of the project, originally undertaken in the fall of 1936, it was hoped to discover certain definite facts regarding the status of foreign languages at the University (the trend of enrollment toward each of the various languages or away from them, and from what other subjects of the curriculum students came to foreign languages or to what subjects they went from them; the total enrollment in the various languages over the years studied, etc., etc.). It was not at that time fully appreciated how much effort and time …


Efforts Of The Continental Congress To Promote Manufactures And Domestic Arts In The Colonies, Floyd Neal Penick Aug 1937

Efforts Of The Continental Congress To Promote Manufactures And Domestic Arts In The Colonies, Floyd Neal Penick

Masters Theses

While efforts were made to promote manufactures in the colonies long before the Revolutionary War began, this struggle forced the Continental Congress to exert more strenuous efforts for the encouragement of the production of certain necessary commodities than had formerly been made. These endeavors, however, were largely incidental to the greater work of successfully prosecuting a war. It is probably true that more emphasis would have been placed upon the domestic manufactures at this time had the Revolution not occurred. The non-importation agreements, passed because of the Intolerable Acts and similar measures, made such a result almost inevitable.