Question: Elizabethton is the historical site of a semi-autonomous government provided a basis for what later developed into the state of what?
Sentence (from "Elizabethton, Tennessee"): Elizabethton is the historical site of the first independent American government (known as the Watauga Association, created in 1772) located west of both the Eastern Continental Divide and the original Thirteen Colonies.
Relevant evidence: Yes