Chapter 4: From Territory to Statehood

Section 1

100

• In 1802, __________________ became Mississippi’s first state-supported college.

Jefferson College

200

When the ________________________________was over, the territory's population skyrocketed.

War of 1812

300

• __________________________defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend on March 27, 1814.  

Andrew Jackson

400

• The __________________ had been making alliances with Indian Nations, promising them that they would return their tribal lands to them if they helped defeat the _________________________

British 

Untied States 

500

• ______________________________ asked to purchase New Orleans from France.

President Thomas Jefferson 

Section 1&2

100

The ____________________ into the Mississippi Territory, the Mississippi River and the Natchez Trace, were full of bandits.

two main routes 

200

In 1817, the state’s most abundant natural resource was __________

land

300

Mississippi was admitted to the United States on __________________.

Dec 10 1817

400

• Sometimes members of each political party got so_____________________________________ in their political rallies that they brought a gun out and began shooting. People were sometimes injured or killed during a political rally.

Emotionally involved

500

• The Constitution of __________was outdated by the 1830s.

1817

Section 2

100

• The two major factions in Mississippi politics were the __________and the _____________________

Whiggs and Democrats

200

Many people established cotton plantations which were well equipped with__________

Slave labor

300

Until the 1830’s, there were more ___________________in the South than the North.

abolitionist groups 

400

_____________________ were chartered to help farmers buy land, slaves, and farming equipment.

New banks 

500

• ______________ could make plantation owners rich in just a few years.

Cotton 

Section 3

100

• Texas gained its __________________________from Mexico and asked the United States to annex (join) it.

Independence 

200

• For _________ Texas remained a national issue.

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10 years 

300

__________ goal was to gather enough weapons to start a slave revolt.

John Brown

400

Scott argued that he was_____________because he had been brought to a free state

Scott argued that he was free because he had been brought to a free state

500

• ________________________was taken by his owner into a non-slave state.When his owner died, he was purchased by an abolitionist who encouraged him to file suit with the federal court.

Dred Scott