The People
A visitor to Antebellum MS would find that most families were small farmers or _________ ? (Sold things)
merchants
A valuable way to travel to MS from other states was the ___________ Trace.
Natchez
Normal life for most settlers in MS during the Antebellum period was tied to ______________
agriculture
___________ on others was very common during the Antebellum Period in MS in order to survive and succeed.
Dependency
Agrarian means the same as ________
agriculture
Reasons for settlers to move to MS during the Antebellum period were:
cheap ________(1)
looking for a second chance in life
readily accessible markets in __________(2) and New Orleans
(1) land
(2) Natchez
Many of the new settlers in MS chose to settle in the numerous _________ valleys around the state- due to the rich, fertile soil found there.
river
The number of slaves in the population of MS during the Antebellum Period was directly related to the amount of ___________ produced- because of the positive correlation shared by these two variables.
cotton
A big difference between the MS Constitution of 1817 and the revised Constitution of 1832 was that in the Constitution of 1832 settlers were given the opportunity to have a bigger ________ in government- as evidenced by more people being allowed to vote even if they were not wealthy or won a lot of land.
say
Domestic means at __________ or local
home
People who hid out along the Natchez Trace and stole from the travelers on the road were known as _________
Highwaymen
This cash crop proved to be the "gold" in MS during the Antebellum Period.
Cotton
Because of what could be achieved with the Cotton Gin (processing cotton faster and making it more profitable), the demand for slaves in MS would ___________.
increase
Joe Baldwin and the Natchezians believed that MS should remain in the _____________ and not secede.
Union
A _______ material has no value by itself but can be turned into something of value via manufacturing.
raw
First born _________ in other states were VERY UNLIKELY to move to MS during the Antebellum Period, because they were set to inherit all of their father's things whenever he died.
sons
Many new settlers to MS during the Antebellum Period chose to settle in areas that had __________ soil- to make it easier for them to farm.
fertile
Slave sell advertisements/flyers were common in Antebellum MS. These slave sales made it seem as if the selling of human beings was as normal as the selling of _____________.
animals
Some in the south, including MS, were convinced that by seceding from the Union, their life would be much easier- in reality, they didn't realize they were actually creating a situation where their life would be much more _________.
difficult
_________ goods are things produced from raw materials and have value as people want to buy them.
Consumer
The man from Jones County MS who believed that MS should not secede from the Union and allow poor people to fight a rich man's war was named _________ Knight.
Newt
An increasing number of _________(1) moved into MS after the removal of the __________(2) and ___________(3) tribes in the early 1800s (*the Natchez tribe had already been eliminated by this time by the French at Fort Rosalie).
(1) settlers
(2) Choctaw
(3) Chickasaw
The __________(1) Gin was a machine that was developed by a man from New England who wanted to improve the _______(2) of processing cotton.
(1) Cotton
(2) speed
__________ was the main reason the state of MS seceded.
Slavery
This man's election in 1860- as a Republican- led to the southern state deciding it was time to secede
Abraham Lincoln