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Lake County, Tennessee, the Glossary

Lake County is a county located in the northwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.^[1]

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1870 establishments in Tennessee
Tennessee counties on the Mississippi River
West Tennessee

Austin Peay

Austin Peay (June 1, 1876 – October 2, 1927) was an American politician who served as the 35th governor of Tennessee from 1923 to 1927.

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Bald eagle

The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey found in North America.

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The Battle of Island Number Ten was an engagement at the New Madrid or Kentucky Bend on the Mississippi Riverforming the border between Missouri and Tennesseeduring the American Civil War, lasting from February 28 to April 8, 1862.

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Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Blue Bank, Tennessee

Blue Bank is an unincorporated community in eastern Lake County, Tennessee.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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County (United States)

In the United States, a county or county equivalent is an administrative or political subdivision of a U.S. state or other territories of the United States which consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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Dyer County, Tennessee

Dyer County is a county located in the westernmost part of the U.S. state of Tennessee. Lake County, Tennessee and Dyer County, Tennessee are Tennessee counties, Tennessee counties on the Mississippi River and west Tennessee.

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Fulton County, Kentucky

Fulton County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of Kentucky, with the Mississippi River forming its western boundary.

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Great Migration (African American)

The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970.

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Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as the first lady of the United States to former president Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001.

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Jim Crow laws

The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Lake County High School (Tiptonville, Tennessee)

Lake County High School is a secondary school in Tiptonville, Tennessee.

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Lake Isom

Lake Isom is a small natural lake located in Lake County, Tennessee immediately south of Reelfoot Lake.

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Lynching in the United States

Lynching was the widespread occurrence of extrajudicial killings which began in the United States' pre–Civil War South in the 1830s and ended during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Madie, Tennessee

Madie is an unincorporated community to the northeast of Ridgely, Tennessee, in Lake County, Tennessee, United States.

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Malcolm R. Patterson

Malcolm Rice Patterson (June 7, 1861 – March 8, 1935) was an American politician and jurist.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States.

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Missouri

Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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New Madrid County, Missouri

New Madrid County (Condado de Nueva Madrid; Comté de New Madrid) is a county located in the Bootheel of the U.S. state of Missouri.

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Northwest Correctional Complex

The Northwest Correctional Complex is a state prison located in Tiptonville, Lake County, Tennessee.

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Obion County, Tennessee

Obion County is a county located in the northwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee. Lake County, Tennessee and Obion County, Tennessee are Tennessee counties and west Tennessee.

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Pemiscot County, Missouri

Pemiscot County is a county located in the southeastern corner in the Bootheel in the U.S. state of Missouri, with the Mississippi River forming its eastern border.

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Per capita income

Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States census

In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.

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Reelfoot Lake is a shallow natural lake located in the northwest portion of the U.S. state of Tennessee, in Lake and Obion Counties.

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Reelfoot Lake State Park is a state park in the northwest corner of Tennessee in the United States.

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Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge is a part of the U.S. system of National Wildlife Refuges consisting of an area of Northwest Tennessee and Western Kentucky that consists primarily of a buffer zone around Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee's only large natural lake.

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Ridgely, Tennessee

Ridgely is a town in Lake County, Tennessee, United States.

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Sharecropping is a legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant (sharecropper) to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_County,_Tennessee

Also known as Lake County, TN.

Lake County, Tennessee, the Glossary

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See also

1870 establishments in Tennessee

Tennessee counties on the Mississippi River

West Tennessee

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