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He invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This was a large cultural estate associated with wealth in antebellum Mississippi.
What was a plantation?
The law adopted by the Mississippi State Government to secede on January 9, 1861.
What is The Ordinance of Secession?
To withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.
What is to secede?
This was the year of the Presidential Election that led to start of the Civil War.
What was the year 1860?
A free black man who was rich and owned slaves and businesses in Natchez.
Who was William Johnson?
This invention increased slavery in Mississippi by decreasing the number of slaves needed to process cotton.
What was the cotton gin?
The amount of The Popular vote that Abraham Lincoln received in the Election of 1860.
What was 39.8%?
The idea that the rights of the individual states should prevail over the rights of the Federal Government.
What is States' Rights?
The first Southern state to secede, and the date of the secession.
What was South Carolina on December 20, 1860?
He was a senator from Mississippi who became the President of The Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
The labor system established by law and custom, in which African-American slaves were considered the personal property of their owners and could be bought, sold, traded, and inherited, was known as this.
What is chattel slavery?
Americans opposed to the expansion of slavery to new territory acquired by the United States.
Who were the free-soliers?
The funds from the lease of every 16th out of 36 sections of land used to support public schools in that section's county.
What are 16th Section Funds?
The second Southern state to secede, and the date of the secession.
What was Mississippi on January 9, 1861?
He was the Presidential candidate that Mississippi supported in the 1860 election.
Who was John C. Breckinridge?
These were the three types of slaves held in bondage in Mississippi.
What were: field slaves, household slaves, and town slaves?
The name of the abolitionist newspaper started by William Lloyd Garrison.
What was The Liberator?
The theory that all men are endowed by God and nature with the right to: life, liberty, and property.
What is the Theory of Natural Rights?
The year the capital of Mississippi was moved to Washington.
What was 1802?
He acquired cotton seeds from Mexico by smuggling them into dolls to plant the cotton in the US.
Who was Walter Burling?
State laws that regulated slavery in antebellum Mississippi were called what.
What were slave codes?
Before the American Civil War, residents of a territory could vote on their state's entering into the Union as a free or slave state.
What was Popular Sovereignty?
This was the first school to be funded with 16th Section funds.
What was the Franklin Academy?
Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to choose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.
What was The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
He was a Virginia slave who started a revolt after killing his owner and family.
Who was Nat Turner?
A white man who served as the manager of the plantation's slaves and farming operation.
Who was an overseer?
A piece of land containing 640 acres. There are 36 of these in a township.
What is a section?
Why was Mississippi called The Buckle of the Bible Belt?
It removed all property qualifications for voting.
Why was the Mississippi Constitution of 1832 so important?