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The number of tribes that lived in what is now Mississippi.
What is 20?
This Mississippi tribe were English allies
Who are the Chickasaw?
official state beverage
What is milk?
the year the stock market crashed and the Great Depression began
What is 1929?
A condensary, creameries, and cheese plants were established in this Mississippi city
What is Starkville?
The most dominant language of Southeastern Native Americans
What is Muskogean?
The Choctaw Indian Agency is located in this city in Mississippi.
What is Philadelphia, MS?
official state tree
What is the Southern Magnolia?
the war that was fought place between the Northern and Southern U.S. States
What is the American Civil War?
Native Americans used this word for whiskey
What is firewater?
The Green Corn Ceremony often settled _______ _________ among tribal families.
What are family feuds?
This tribe's name meant "people at the source the stream"
Who are the Ibitoupa?
the official state bird
What is the Mockingbird?
This person assassinated Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
the art and technique of making maps and charts
What is cartography?
Native Americans used this at ceremonies to show peace or to end conflict.
What is the calumet (peace pipe)?
This tribe built sacred mounds for their religious ceremonies
Who are the Natchez?
official state fish
What is the largemouth bass?
There was a major Union victory in 1863 in this Mississippi city.
What is Vicksburg?
What are farmers?
This tribe had a ceremonial leader known as the Great Sun
Who are the Natchez?
This tribe is known for killing 200 Frenchmen.
Who are the Chickasaw?
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This document issued by Abraham Lincoln freed slaves in states rebelling against the Union during the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This group owned between 20 and 50 slaves and farmed 200-500 acres of land
What are small planters?