What is the law that created the Mississippi Territory which also provided for its government...
100
Sectionalism,
One of the challenges facing the young American republic in its early years was....
100
Mexican War,1846-1848
What is the war that Mexico started after Texas won its independence from Mexico and became a state within the US. USA went to war to protect Texas from Mexico...
100
William C.C.Claiborne
Who was the Mississippi territorial governor for both Mississippi and New Orleans that became the first state governor when Louisiana first became a state...
100
Sectionalism
What is an allegiance to local, rather than national, interests.
200
Jefferson College
What is Mississippi's first state-supported institution of higher learning...
200
Causes of Sectionalism
What is a protective tariff and differing views on slavery....
200
1836(In relation to Texas)
Texas gained their independence from Mexico...
200
Pushmataha
Who is the Choctaw Chief...
200
Proactive Tariff
What is a tax placed on manufactured goods that are imported into America from foreign countries...
300
The Louisiana Purchase
What is a land purchase in 1803 that more than doubled the size of the United States...
300
The Constitution of 1832
What is the removal of all property qualifications for public office and for voting....
300
Compromise of 1850
What are the series of bills introduced by Henry Clay that called for: California was admitted as a free state,Slavery would be decided in Utah and New Mexico by popular vote, Slavery would remain legal in Washington DC, the public sale of slaves would be prohibited in Washington DC, and a strong fugitive slave law was put into effect...
300
Heroic Hester
Who is a courageous slave woman that on August 30,1813, rowed down the Mobile River where she informed the American troops at Fort Stoddert that there was a Creek Attack...
300
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848
What is the treaty that ended the Mexican War and allowed the US to gain the territory that includes all or part of the present states of New Mexico, Arizona,Utah,Nevada, and California...
400
The War of 1812
What is The war between England and America over freedom of the seas and for Mississippi, an Indian war involving Tecumseh and the Mississippi Chactaw and Chickasaw.
400
Missouri Compromise of 1820
What is the compromise that prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Purchase above the 30'30' parallel but allowed slavery below the 36'30' line...
400
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
What is the document that created the two new territories of Kansas and Nebraska and specified that the status of slavery in those territories would be determined by popular vote... Also repealed the Missouri Compromise...
400
Dred Scott
Who was a slave who had been taken by his owner from Missouri(a slave state) to Illinois(Non-Slave state)...When his owner died, he was purchased by an abolitionist who allowed him to file for his freedom with the court system...
400
Natchez Trace
What is the overland route that followed a northeasterly path beginning in Natchez...
500
December 10,1817
What is the date that Mississippi became a state...
500
Flush Times
What is the economic expansion of the early 1830's when "a golden canopy covered the land"...
500
John Brown's Raid of 1859
What is the raid led by John Brown on October 16,1859 on the federal Arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.(Now West Virginia)...
500
John Brown
Who was a fanatical abolitionist who had been involved in the violence in "Bleeding Kansas", in 1859, led an armed raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, with the intention of inspiring an armed revolt by slaves.