It is one of the principal states of the South and is often referred to as the Heart of Dixie.
The state capital, Montgomery, became the provisional capital of the Confederate States of America in 1861 and is popularly known as the Cradle of the Confederacy.
From plateaus and uplands in the northeastern section of the state, the land slopes gradually southward across forested ridges, rolling prairie, and fertile valleys to the delta of the Mobile River on an arm of the Gulf of Mexico.
Tennessee (state), in the East South Central region of the United States, lying between the Mississippi River on the west and the backbone of the Blue Ridge province of the Appalachian Mountains on the east.
The state has no official nickname but is frequently called the Volunteer State, used in recognition of the valor displayed by volunteer soldiers from the state during wars in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Tennessee was the last state to ratify the measure, which guaranteed the right to vote “regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” The amendment was formally passed in February 1870 when it was approved by three quarters of the 37 states then in existence.
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