Native Americans
Geographical Regions
European Explorers
Antebellum Statehood
Miscellaneous
100
This was the largest Native American tribe in Mississippi?
Who are the Choctaw?
100
This is the most fertile region in the state.
What is the Delta?
100
This was the first man to explore the Mississippi Territory in the 1500's.
Who is Hernando De Soto?
100
This is the term for "before the Civil War."
What is antebellum?
100
This is the name of the most violent Indian group in Mississippi who were proud warriors.
Who are the Chickasaw?
200
This was the most religious tribe who worshiped the Sun god.
Who are the Natchez.
200
This is the region located on the the Gulf Coast of Mississippi.
What is the Gulf Coastal Meadow region?
200
This is the country that took control of the Mississippi Territory after the French and Indian War.
Who is England or Great Britain.
200
This is the main crop that was grown in Antebellum Mississippi. It late became known as "king."
What is cotton?
200
This is the event in which thousands of Indians were moved from the Southeast United States to Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
300
These are the tree main crops that the Indians grew for food.
What are beans, squash, and corn (maize).
300
This is the region that has the highest elevation in the state.
What is the Tennessee Hills region?
300
This Mississippi town is where one of the first settlements was built by the French. They later built Fort Rosalie here.
What is Natchez?
300
This was the first university to open in the state.
What is The University of Mississippi or Ole Miss
300
This is the year in which Mississippi became a state.
What is 1817?
400
This is the European country that the Chickasaw Indians aligned with during war.
Who is England or Great Britain?
400
This is the region that divides the Delta from the rest of the state.
What is the Loess Hills (Bluffs) region?
400
This is the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War and allowed Spain to take control of the region
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1783.
400
This is the type of slavery that was prevalent in Mississippi, where the slaves were considered the property of their owners.
What is chattel slavery?
400
These are the names of the French explorers who first sailed down the Mississippi River from Canada.
Who are Marquette and Joliet?
500
This is the term used to describe the Choctaw, meaning they grew more food instead of hunting.
What is agrarian.
500
This is the region of the state that depended largely on timber for income.
What is the Piney Woods region?
500
This is the name of the French explorer who claimed the Louisiana Territory for France.
Who is La Salle.
500
This is the machine that was invented to separate the cotton from its seeds.
What is the cotton gin?
500
This was the name of the man who invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
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