Where in the World is Mississippi?
If you were to ask a person for a precise location, what type of geographical term would they use?
Absolute Location
Which region has the least fertile soil in Mississippi?
Flatwoods
This land mass was used by Native Americans to migrate to North America.
Bering Land Bridge
When the French landed in Mississippi in 1699, what was the location of that landing?
Ship Island
The Mississippi Territory was divided into which two states?
Mississippi and Alabama
The Waterways Experiment Station in Vicksburg was created because of what natural disaster in Mississippi?
Great Flood of 1927
Which region has the Free State of Jones located in it?
Piney Woods
This treaty gave the United States government over 6 million acres of land.
Treaty of Pontotoc
What attracted English settlers to the Spanish Natchez District?
liberal land grants
Which road connected the Mississippi River to Nashville?
Natchez Trace
A large amount of the settlers in the Natchez District supported which side during the American Revolution?
Loyalists
Which region extends from the stateline of Tennessee to the stateline of Louisiana?
Loess Bluffs
The French created this fort to protect the city of Natchez.
Fort Rosalie
In the chapter preview, who was discussed as the leading explorer to the Far East?
Marco Polo
As Marquette and Joliet discovered the lower Louisiana, they also discovered two important rivers. They are the following:
Mississippi and Arkansas
Which region has a deep history with the Chickasaw Indians?
Pontotoc Ridge
Which region is viewed as the most fertile soil in Mississippi?
Delta
This federal and state law pushed the Indians from their homeland.
Indian Removal Policy
A large amount of the settlers in the Natchez District supported which side during the American Revolution?
Loyalist
What were the basic causes of the War of 1812? (2 causes)
Freedom of the seas
Indian war between Creeks, Chickasaw, and Choctaw
List 5 states which border the Mississippi River.
Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama,Missouri
Which industry did the Coastal Meadows region gain after the second World War?
Shipbuilding
In 1918, the Bureau of Indian Affairs created this tribe Indian Agency.
Choctaw
List the three parts of the Black Codes passed in 1724 in Mississippi.
Prohibited husband and wife from separating
children under 14 couldn't be separated from their mother,
slaves freed by their owner became French citizens.
Choctaw chief who supported Andrew
Jackson
Pushmataha