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What made Mississippi a territory and legalized chattel slavery in Mississippi?
Northwest Ordinance
The overland route that followed a northeasterly path beginning in Natchez.
Natchez Trace
____ _________ _________- stated in October of 1820 with rumors that Spain might sell Louisiana back to France . So President Thomas Jefferson opened up negotiation with France. His intentions were to just buy New Orleans, but Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte of France. Said he would sell all 828,000 square miles of land (the Louisiana Territory) for 15,000,000, Jefferson accepted the deal.
The Louisiana Purchase
Allegiance to local, rather than national, interest.
Sectionalism
What were the two main transportation routes in the Mississippi Territory?
The Mississippi River and the Natchez Trace
Our first state constitution, which was written before Mississippi was admitted to statehood.
Constitution of 1817-
After the War of 1812, ______ _______ increased and soon reached the level of necessary for advancement to statehood
Mississippi’s Population
Where would they travel back home through?
Hint: Also Known as the Devils Backbone
They would travel back through the Natchez Trace which was known as the Devil's Backbone
What 1787 law that established the Northwest Territory, provided for its government, and forbade slavery in the territory?
Northwest Ordinance
The Purchase in 1803 of the vast territory of Louisiana from France, which more than doubled the size of the United States.
Louisiana Purchase
What made slavery legal.
Due to the property requirements that were embedded in the Constitution of 1817
The wealthy planters controlled the political process and significantly influenced the customs and traditions in antebellum Mississippi due to the...
Due to the property requirements that were embedded in the Constitution of 1817
How were goods were transported from Kentucky to Tennessee down the Mississippi River.
Flatboats
What would they do to the flatboats after arriving in New Orleans
They would dismantle the boat after arriving in New Orleans.
The basic cause of the war of 1812 between England and America was freedom of the seas, but as far as the Mississippi Territory was concerned, it was primarily an Indian war.
War of 1812