Location
Vocabulary
Early Mississippi
People
Facts
100

capital of Mississippi

What is Jackson

100

the exact location of a place

what is absolute location

100

the trade route between Natchez and Nashville

what is the Natchez Trace

100

first governor of MS

Who is David Holmes

100

worst hurricane Mississippi has ever had

what is Hurricane Katrina

200

borders Mississippi on the North

What is Tennessee

200

the location of a place compared to other places

what is relative location

200

3 Indian tribes in early Mississippi history

what are the Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Natchez

200

14 year old from Chicago that was lynched in Money, Mississippi

Who is Emmett Till

200

this happened in Mississippi in 1927

what is the Mississippi River levee broke and flooded 27,000 acres

300

Borders Mississippi on the East

what is Alabama

300

legal separation of races

what is segregation

300

Mississippi was what number state added to the U.S.?

what is the 20th

300

President who wanted to kill a bear in Mississippi

who is President Theodore Roosevelt "Teddy"

300

Catfish capital of Mississippi

what is Belzoni

400

Borders the whole state of Mississippi on the West

what is the Mississippi River

400

many African Americans left the south to go North to escape slavery

what is the Great Migration

400

Mississippi's nickname early 1800s

what is King Cotton

400

first African American to attend Ole Miss

Who is James Meredith

400

the highest point in Mississippi

what is Woodall Mountain

500

Borders Mississippi on the south

what is the Gulf of Mexico

500

to withdraw from the union

what is secede

500

hurricane that hit the coast in 1969

what is Hurricane Camille

500

declared the Emancipation Proclamation that declared all slav es in the confederate states free

Who is Abraham Lincoln

500

number of counties in Mississippi

what is 82