State of MS
Mississippi became the nation’s ____ state
what is the 20th
The cotton boom was a labor-intensive business and was the main cause of the increased demand for ____.
what is slaves
_______ Mississippi slaves and Freedmen fought for the union.
what is 17,000
to withdraw formally from the union
what is secede
The _____ ____ began in April 1861.
what is Civil War
-Mississippi became the nation’s 20th state on December 10, _______
what is 1817
Land was cheap because Mississippi banks extended easy_______ to farmers.
what is credit
Nat Turner, a slave from Virginia, rose up and killed ____ white people.
what is 57
The Confederate Constitution protected the right to keep______.
what is slavery
The Battle of ______ was the bloodiest battle in Mississippi.
what is Battle of Shiloh
_____ was Mississippi’s first governor
who is David Holmes
Eli Whitney invented the ___ ____ that cleaned cotton and separated the seed from the fiber faster.
what is the cotton gin
The most prominent free black man was _____ _____, a barber who owned town lots, a farm, and slaves
who is William Johnson
The rich white slave owners in Mississippi decided they would have to_____ from the Union to protect their way of life.
what is secede
The Battle of _________ was a decisive victory for Union forces.
what is Vicksburg
The removal of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes opened some of the nation’s most fertile farmland to grow_______
what is cotton
Slave population increased from 700,000 to _____.
Slaves who were freed in Mississippi placed themselves at great risk if they failed to have their ____ _____.
what is freedom papers.
Mississippi was the ____ state to secede from the union.
what is 2nd
At the Battle of Vicksburg Union forces gained control of the entire _____ _____.
what is Mississippi River
Mississippi was called ____ _____.
what is King Cotton
Only ___ % of white people were wealthy enough to own slaves.
what is 9 %
William Lloyd Garrison published an anti-slavery newspaper called the _____.
what is “The Liberator”
-The south became known as the Confederate States of America better known as the _______.
what is the Confederacy
Meridian's major ________ junction made it the home of a Confederate arsenal, military hospital, and prisoner-of-war stockade.
what is railroad