Politics & Statehood
Native Americans
Slavery
Misc. 1
Misc. 2
100
The Capital of Mississippi moved from ______ to _______ in 1821
What is Washington, Jackson?
100
Choctaw Chief
Who is Pushmataha?
100
Slaves arrived in Mississippi with these Europeans.
Who are the French?
100
Gold and Silver
What is specie?
100
Large farms
What are plantations?
200
The State Capital is named after ________ .
Who is Andrew Jackson?
200
The track of Native Americans to Oklahoma
What is The Trail of Tears?
200
Picked cotton, cooked, cleaned house, tended to livestock, made clothes, cared for small children, blacksmiths, carpenters, and brick masons
What are some of the jobs that slaves did on farms and plantations?
200
The time before the Civil War
What is Antebellum?
200
Organization that governed counties in Mississippi after 1832.
What is the board of police?
300
Believed that Washington was too small, and the small farmers and townspeople in the eastern and northern parts of the state wanted a capital that was closer to them.
Why did some people consider Washington unsuitable for the state capital?
300
The 5 treaties signed by the Native Americans of Mississippi.
What is Treaty of Fort Adams, Treaty of Mount Dexter, Treaty of Doak's Stand, Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, and the Treaty of Pontotoc Creek
300
Created a set of laws to govern the slaves in 1724.
Who is Governor Bienville?
300
the policy of the Federal Government towards the Native Americans
What is Assimilation?
300
Students who attended public school in the 19th century studied three things.
What is reading, writing, and arithmetic?
400
Led to the depression in Mississippi
What is the Panic of 1837?
400
Native Americans ceded 10 million acres of land to the United States.
What is the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek?
400
A strand of cotton that grows best in Mississippi.
What is Petit Gulf Cotton?
400
This major expansion improved land travel and connected cities that once weren't.
What are railroads?
400
President Andrew Jackson transferred federal funds to state banks called ______ ______ because of their political connections.
What are pet banks?
500
The territorial capital of Mississippi because it was the most substantial settlement
What is Natchez?
500
Led a revolt against the United States.
Who is Tecumseh?
500
The most prominent free black of antebellum Mississippi.
Who is William Johnson?
500
Two largest denominations of Christianity in antebellum Mississippi.
What is Methodist and Baptist?
500
"Next Thursday."
What is Thanksgiving?
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