Early Statehood
The Territory Days
Secession Causes
Important Names
Major Events
100

This city became the new capital of Mississippi in 1822.

What is Jackson?

100

This war was a rematch of the American Revolution and saw many events, such as the Burning of the White House.

What is the War of 1812?

100

This war only serves to spark tensions between the North and the South and gained the U.S. tons of land out west.

What is the Mexican War?

100

This man became known a war hero after his heroic efforts during the War of 1812.

Who is Andrew Jackson?

100

This battle that ended the Creek involvement in the War of 1812 is named after what can be found on the bottom of a horse.

What is the Battle of Horsebend Bend?

200

This was the year in which Mississippi gained statehood.

What is 1817?

200

These types of people were the main reason that many did not want to travel the Mississippi River?

What are bandits/robbers?

200

This Supreme Court decision undid years of progress for abolitionists and declared that slaves were property by the U.S. Constitution.

What/Who is Dred Scott?

200

Texas, by some lawmakers, was discussed as being split up into this many different states.

What is five?

200

This battle took place after its war ended and saw Andrew Jackson and his troops stand victorious in the city it is named after.

What is the Battle of New Orleans?

300

In the early days of statehood, this phrase was abundant, which means to take more pride and identity locally than nationally.

What is sectionalism?

300

This school was the first institution of higher learning in the Mississippi territory.

What is Jefferson College?

300

Throughout the lead-up to secession, this was what Bleeding Kansas, the addition of states like Texas, the Wilmot Proviso, and the two Compromises were all about.

What is political power/keeping slave and free states equal?

300

This man was the most famous alumnus of Jefferson College and would later be a senator and the President of the Confederacy.

Who is Jefferson Davis?

300

This time of voting in the Kansas and Nebraska territories was known for its violence between abolitionists and slave owners, earning it a gory nickname.

What is Bleeding Kansas?

400

This was a time of economic and population boom in Mississippi during the 1830s.

What are the Flush Times?

400

During the early days, Mississippi took a step forward for women in what way?

Some believe they had the first women's college in Elizabeth Female Academy.

400

This proposed bill was extremely controversial and would have barred slavery from all territories gained from Mexico

What is the Wilmot Proviso?

400

This man was executed for attempting to begin a slave revolt in Harper's Ferry, Virginia.

Who is John Brown?

400

This settlement between the Northern and Southern states admitted California as a free state, passed a fugitive slave law, and increased the tensions over slavery.

What is the Compromise of 1850?

500

During this time, this agreement was reached that saw slave states only be allowed below the 36-30 parallel and free states be above it.

What is the Compromise of 1820?

500

This Native tribe joined the British in battle and inflicted heavy losses to U.S. citizens before being defeated.

Who is the Creek Nation?

500

These two political parties formed in Mississippi during the election of 1851 between Henry Foote and John Quitman.

What is the Union and State's Rights Parties?

500

This man was the sitting president during the Louisiana Purchase.

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

500

This election was a defining moment in Mississippi as the Union Party and Foote defeated the State's Rights Party and Quitman.

What is the Election of 1851?

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