Vocabulary
This 1787 law created a framework for governing U.S. territories.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
Congress created the Mississippi Territory in this year.
What is 1798?
Mississippi entered the Union as this numbered state.
What is the 20th state?
This document established Mississippi's first state government.
What is the Mississippi Constitution of 1817?
This treaty ended the Mexican War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This overland route connected Natchez with Nashville and became a U.S. mail route in 1801.
What is the Natchez Trace?
This city served as the first capital of the Mississippi Territory.
What is Natchez?
Mississippi officially became a state on this date.
What is December 10, 1817?
Under the 1817 constitution, eligible voters had to be white males at least this age.
What is 21 years old?
This proposal tried to ban slavery in land acquired from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This term means adding territory to an existing country or government.
What is annexation?
In 1802, leaders moved the territorial capital to this town six miles east of Natchez.
What is Washington, Mississippi?
This Shawnee leader visited Mississippi seeking allies for an Indigenous confederation.
Who was Tecumseh?
This constitution removed property qualifications for voting and public office for white men.
What is the Constitution of 1832?
This 1820 agreement limited slavery north of latitude 36 degrees 30 minutes in the Louisiana Territory.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
What is a protective tariff? This tax on imported goods protected American manufacturers from foreign competition.
protective tariff
Boatmen used this type of vessel to carry freight downstream to New Orleans.
What is a flatboat?
This Choctaw leader fought alongside U.S. troops during the Creek War.
Who was Pushmataha?
This city, named for Andrew Jackson, became Mississippi's capital in 1822.
What is Jackson?
This 1854 act let settlers in Kansas and Nebraska vote on slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This term describes loyalty to a region rather than to the nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
Boatmen used this nickname for the dangerous Natchez Trace.
What is the Devil's Backbone?
Andrew Jackson defeated Creek forces at this 1814 battle.
What is the Battle of Horseshoe Bend?
These projects included roads, bridges, canals, and railroads.
What are internal improvements?
This Supreme Court ruling treated enslaved people as property protected by the Constitution.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This name describes the rapid economic expansion and land boom of the early 1830s.
What are the Flush Times?
This 1803 purchase from France more than doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Under this treaty, the Creek Nation ceded nearly 23 million acres to the United States.
What is the Treaty of Fort Jackson?
Choctaw and Chickasaw land cessions helped produce this population and land boom.
What were the Flush Times?
This 1830 treaty ceded the Choctaw Nation's remaining lands east of the Mississippi River.
What is the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek?
These antislavery activists opposed the spread of slavery into western territories.
Who were the free soilers?
This governor accepted the transfer of Louisiana for the United States in New Orleans.
Who was William C. C. Claiborne?
Congress divided the territory so the western section became Mississippi and the eastern section became this territory.
What is Alabama Territory?
This architect designed the Old Capitol and the governor's mansion.
Who was William Nichols?
This 1832 treaty ceded the Chickasaw Nation's remaining lands in Mississippi and Alabama.
What is the Treaty of Pontotoc Creek?
These southern politicians actively called for secession during the 1850s.
Who were the fire-eaters?
Explain why flatboat workers often returned north by land instead of sailing upstream.
What is because flatboats traveled downstream, then workers dismantled and sold them in New Orleans?
Place these in chronological order: statehood, Fort Mims, Horseshoe Bend, Battle of New Orleans.
What are Fort Mims, Horseshoe Bend, Battle of New Orleans, then Mississippi statehood?
Explain how the 1817 constitution helped wealthy planters control state politics.
What is through property requirements for voting and officeholding while slavery remained legal?
Explain why John Brown's 1859 raid increased southern support for secession.
What is because it increased fears of an armed revolt and threats to the plantation system?