These laws covered every aspect of slaver and society, granting slaves only a few rights.
What is are Black Code
100
Plantations
What is a relative large farm called in the South.
100
Where the Civil War started.
What is Fort Sumter
100
Jefferson Davis
Carried the state in the election of the president of the Confederate states of America
100
Popular Sovereignty
What is a vote by those living there
200
The removal of Native Americans from east of the Mississippi River to the West of the Mississippi river.
What is the Trail of Tears.
200
Robert E. Lee
This general surrender his army at Appomattox Court House.
200
the Methodist and Baptist
The largest denominations in Mississippi during the Antebellum period
200
Republican Party
What political party was formed to oppose the expansion of slavery.
300
The cotton gin
This invention would prolong slavery in the South.
300
The withdrawal from the Union.
What is the secession
300
General Grant
Commander of the Union Army when the Confederate States were defeated.
300
Lead the effort to improve the treatment of the mentally ill.
Who was Dorothea Dix
300
the Mississippi Colonization Society
Was formed to assist freed blacks to move to Liberia.
400
Valuable machinery would break, barns, cotton gins, and bales would burn up.
What were some examples of slave resistance.
400
Specie
What is gold and silver coins called
400
the City of Vicksburg
The capture of this city was extremely important to the Union War effort and a major part in cutting off supplies to the Confederate States of America.
400
Mississippi
Which state in 1839 passed the first laws in the English peaking world protecting the property rights of married women.
400
States' rights
What is the principle that the rights of the individual states should prevail over the rights of the federal government.
500
Abraham Lincoln
Whose election would cause the southern states to leave the union.
500
This would lead to the depression of 1837-41
What is the Panic of 1837
500
Emancipation Proclamtion
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
This declared that all slaves owned by persons in the Confederate States were free.
500
Greenwood Mississippi
Where was the second largest cotton exchange in the United States located?