Native American Culture
sport played by Native Americans known as the "little brother to war"
What is stickball?
This tribe required human sacrifice when their chief died.
Who are the Natchez?
The year that that Columbus sailed to the New World
What is 1492?
color made from the indigo plant
What is blue?
The movement of people from urban areas to the cities
What is urbanization?
The most important crop to Native Americans
What is maize/corn?
This tribe was the most agricultural and most peaceful of the MS tribes.
Who are the Choctaw?
Hernando de Soto Brough bigs to America from this country
What is Spain?
This pest threatened cotton production in the 1920s
What is the boll weevil?
This law in the Constitution says a person cannot be tried twice for the same crime.
What is double jeopardy?
another word for "peace pipe"
What is the calumet?
This tribe buried the dead under their floor with possessions.
Who are the Chickasaw?
This French explorer went too far west and was killed by his crew
Who is La Salle?
These two cities were the first territorial capitals of Mississippi
Natchez and Washington
An organization that work to abolish segregation and ensure constitutional rights for African Americans
What is the NAACP?
What ceremony marked the beginning of the the Native American new year?
What is the Green Corn Ceremony?
This tribe was known as "The Bread People" and have a city named after them in MS.
Who are the Pascagoula?
The river known as the one that "lost itself in the great sea"
What is the Mississippi River?
Under the Balance Agriculture with Industry (BAWI) program, this was the most important industry attracted to Mississippi.
What is shipbuilding?
The "Plessy v. Ferguson" Supreme Court Case upheld the idea of "________ ____ __________" facilities for black and white people.
What is separate but equal?
These fishing methods were used by Native Mississippians. (Name 2 of 3)
What is grabbling, stirring mud, and stupefying?
The three major tribes of Mississippi
Who are the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Natchez?
Europeans came to realize that the real "treasure" in the New World was this.
What is fertile soil/land?
The largest canning plant in Mississippi produced this
What are pickles?
This event ended the Great Depression in Mississippi and throughout the U.S.
What is World War II?