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Tribes that built burial mounds over tombs and sometimes shaped those mounds like birds or animals.
Mound Builders
is a type of slavery where an enslaved person who is owned for ever and whose children and children's children are automatically enslaved.
Chattel Slavery
a series of forced relocation of Native Americans in the United States from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States, to areas to the west
Trail of Tears
any of the Southern Democrats who seceded from the party in 1948 in opposition to its policy of extending civil rights.
Dixiecrats
White man who murdered civil rights activist Medgar Evers.
Byron De La Beckwith
Ancestors to American Indians who crossed Beringia from Asia into N. America 30,000 to 10,000 years ago.
Paleo-Indians
prohibited black people from owning property, buying land, and made being unemployed illegal.
Black Codes
The first governor of the Mississippi Territory.
Winthrop Sargent
Mississippi businessmen and upper class citizens who used economic pressure to enforce segregation on businesses.
Citizens Council
Outlawed segregation in public places.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
A land bridge that existed between Asia and North America prior to the end of the last ice age.
Beringia
Means “before the war” in the south.
Antebellum
Paper money backed by a commodity.
Currency
created by the Mississippi legislature to protect the state’s rights from encroachment by the federal government, and to discourage integration and promote segregation within the state.
Sovereignty Commission
Abolished literacy tests and poll taxes for voting, and made it illegal to discriminate against minorities in regards to voting rights.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
Conquistadors
connected a town with a cotton gin to the nearest river port.
Cotton Lines
Gold and/or Silver
Specie
(of a mob) kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.
Lynching
were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960)
Freedom Riders
transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas.
Atlantic Slave Trade
connected the major towns and cities of MS with those of other southern states.
Trunk Lines
the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.
Segregation
was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.
The Great Migration
military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War. The plan called for a naval blockade of Confederate ports , a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces.
Anaconda Plan