Final Exam
Who was allowed to own property under the Mississippi Constitution of 1817?
White Males
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
What made the Natchez Trace and the Mississippi River such difficult routes to travel in the early 19th century?
Cutthroats, bandits, and robbers.
List the three types of slaves in antebellum Mississippi.
Town, field, house
The right to self-govern is known as .......
Sovereighty
Why is Mississippi Vulnerable to heavy flooding?
Mississippi has many rivers winding through the state and high average rainfall.
Why was the Cotton Gin important?
It allowed more slaves to focus on working in the fields.
List the three major Native American tribes that inhabited Mississippi.
Natchez, Choctaw, Chickasaw
An arrangement by which prisoners were leased as laborers to private companies.
Who was elected president of the US that led Mississippians to call for a secession convention?
Abraham Lincoln
What is the name for a group of citizen-soldiers?
Militia
What were the two ways that white Mississippians prevented African-Americans from voting after the Civil War?
Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests
Who is James Meredith?
He was an African-American who attempted to enroll at Ole Miss.
Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
He refused to enforce the Reconstruction Acts.
What did the fall of Vicksburg do to the Confederacy?
It cut off Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas
What did the Reconstruction Acts require of Mississippi for it to be allowed back in the U.S.?
Mississippi had to adopt a new state constitution and hold elections.
What is the term for women's right to vote?
Suffrage
Why was James Meredith important?
He caused a riot on campus in 1962.
What happened to Emmett Till?
Emmett Till was a 14 year old who was murdered by two white men in 1955.
What did Medgar Evers do in the days before his assassination?
Gave a speech on television calling for boycotts of businesses that discriminate against blacks.
What made Vicksburg so important to the Confederacy (the South during the Civil War)?
The city sits on high bluffs overlooking the MS River, allowing it to control who passes on the river.
What was important about Fort Rosalie and where was it?
Fort Rosalie was a French colony founded near modern-day Natchez that overlooked the Mississippi River.
What was the effect of large scale timber industries in MS after the Civil War?
It led to the Railroad Boom after the Civil War
What did Emmett Till's murder lead to?
His murdered helped start the Civil Rights Movement.
Three civil rights workers investigating a church burning were murdered in Neshoba County.