Constitution and Compromise
A constitution to replace the unpopular and outdated Constitution of 1817; it removed property qualifications for public office and for voting
What is the Constitution of 1832
The law that created the "Mississippi Territory"
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Occuring or existing before a particular war, especially the American Civil War
What is Antebellum
Jefferson's Vice President; killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel
Who was Aaron Burr
Cotton and cotton-growing considered, in the pre-Civil War South, as a vital commodity, the major factor not only in the economy but also in politics.
What is King Cotton
Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, Maine to enter the union as a free state, prohibited slavery north of latitude 36˚ 30' within the Louisiana Territory
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820
A tax placed on goods from another country to protect the home industry.
What is a Protective Tariff
People who believed that slavery should be against the law
Who were Abolitionists
Choctaw chief who helped the Americans during the Creek War
Who was Pushmataha
In 1859, the militant abolitionist John Brown seized the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry. He planned to end slavery by massacring slave owners and freeing their slaves. He was captured and executed.
What is The John Brown Raid
(1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico
What is the Compromise of 1850
1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas - Nebraska Act
Refers to a group of extremist pro-slavery politicians from the South who urged the separation of southern states into a new nation, which became known as the Confederate States of America.
Who were Fire-Eaters
Became capital of Mississippi December 1822
What is Jackson, MS
Population of Mississippi in 1800
What was 8000
Our first state constitution, which was written before Mississippi was admitted to statehood
What is the Constitution of 1817
A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen.
What is the Dred Scott Decision
Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
What is Sectionalism
The first state capital of Mississippi
What is Natchez, MS
Divided Senators Foote and Davis. Caused major reorganization of political parties and Union Party. Foote was elected governor and opposed secession, same as the States' Rights Party.
What is the Mississippi Election of 1851
Amendment that sought to prohibit slavery from territories acquired from Mexico. Introduced by Pennsylvania congressman David Wilmot, the failed amendment ratcheted up tensions between North and South over the issue of slavery.
What is the Wilmot Proviso of 1846
Treaty that ended the Mexican War, granting the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and CA in exchange for $15 million
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
Legally adding land area to a city in the United States
What is Annexation
1803 purchase of the Louisiana territory from France. Made by Jefferson, this doubled the size of the US.
A war (1812-1814) between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France.
What is the War of 1812