Where in the World is Mississippi?
Fertile Soil
Native Mississippians
The European Period
From Territory to Early Statehood
100

If you were to ask a person for a precise location, what type of geographical term would they use?

Absolute Location       

                    

                                   


    

100

Which region has the least fertile soil in Mississippi?

Flatwoods

100

This land mass was used by Native Americans to migrate to North America.

Bering Land Bridge

100

When the French landed in Mississippi in 1699, what was the location of that landing?

Ship Island

100

The Mississippi Territory was divided into which two states?

Mississippi and Alabama

200

The Waterways Experiment Station in Vicksburg was created because of what natural disaster in Mississippi?

              

                    Great Flood of 1927                 

                        

                                   


    

200

Which region has the Free State of Jones located in it?

Piney Woods

200

This treaty gave the United States government over 6 million acres of land.

Treaty of Pontotoc

200

What attracted English settlers to the Spanish Natchez District?

liberal land grants

200

Which road connected the Mississippi River to Nashville?

Natchez Trace

300

Aquaculture refers to

Catfish Farming

300

 Which region extends from the stateline of Tennessee to the stateline of Louisiana?

Loess Bluffs

300

The French created this fort to protect the city of Natchez.

Fort Rosalie

300

The dominant language of Indians in the southwest

Muskhogean

300

As Marquette and Joliet discovered the lower Louisiana, they also discovered two important rivers. They are the following:

Mississippi and Arkansas

400

Which region has a deep history with the Chickasaw Indians?

Pontotoc Ridge

400

Which region is viewed as the most fertile soil in Mississippi?

 

Delta

400

This federal and state law pushed the Indians from their homeland.

Indian Removal Policy

400

A large amount of the settlers in the Natchez District supported which side during the American Revolution?



Loyalist

400

What were the basic causes of the War  of 1812? (2 causes)

1.Freedom of the seas 

 2. Indian war between Creeks, Chickasaw, and Choctaw

500

List 5 states which border the Mississippi River.

Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama,Missouri 

500

Which industry did the Coastal Meadows region gain after the second World War?

Shipbuilding

500

In 1918, the Bureau of Indian Affairs created this tribe Indian Agency.

Choctaw

500

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.

500
The first capital of Mississippi 

Washington

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