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These are the states that stayed loyal to the U.S. during the Civil War.
What are Union States?
This is the day the Civil War ended in Mississippi.
What is July 4th, 1863?
This is the capital city of the United States during the American Civil War.
What is Washington D.C.?
The Bourbon Ear brought this century to an end.
What is the 19th century?
This is the name of the time period from the founding of Mississippi to the start of the Civil War.
What is the Antebellum Period?
This person was the only president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Many of the Exodusters fled to this U.S. state.
What is Kansas?
This is considered to be the event that started the Civil War in America.
What is the attack of Fort Sumter?
Alcorn State University, State Normal School, Mississippi State University, Mississippi University for Women, and Jackson State university were all founded during this historical era.
What is the Bourbon Era?
This was the first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
This person became president after Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This view of slavery stated that it's necessary to help the country progress, even if it is wrong.
What is a necessary evil?
This is a school dedicated to training teachers.
What is a normal school?
What is secede?
A theory stating that all men, everywhere, are endowed by God and nature with the rights of life, liberty, and property.
African Americans fleeing persecution in the South.
Who were the exodusters?
This name is often used to describe someone who is forced to do unpaid labor and is often exploited.
What is a slave?
This idea of slavery stated that slavery has allowed African Americans to hear the Gospel.
What is a positive good?
This person was the provisional governor of Mississippi.
Who was William L. Sharkey?
A northerner who remained in the South or moved to the South after the Civil War.
What is a carpetbagger?
These two cities were burned by Ulysses S. Grant on his way to Vicksburg.
What are Jackson and Raymond?
A White Mississippian or other southerner who joined the republican party and supported the rights of citizenship for blacks during Reconstruction.
Who were the scalawags?
A tactic where armed forces try to capture a fort or fortified town by surrounding it and preventing supplies from reaching it.
What is a siege?
This battle, one of the deadliest in the Civil War, took place just north of Corinth, Mississippi.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
This supreme court case stated that segregation based on race was legal as long as the facilities were equal.
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?