Mississippi Studies Chapter 4 From Territory to Statehood

The Mississippi Territory was divided into which two states?

• Tennessee and Arkansas

• Georgia and Alabama

• Louisiana and Mississippi

• Mississippi and Alabama

In what year did Mississippi become a state?

• 1800

• 1817

• 1815

• 1820

The first capital of Mississippi was

• Natchez

• Jackson

• Tupelo

• Greenwood

Which road in Mississippi runs from Natchez to Nashville, Tennessee?

• Santa Fe Trail

• I-55

• Natchez Trace

• Chisholm Trail

The current capital of Mississippi is

• Greenwood

• Tupelo

• Jackson

• Biloxi

In July of 1817, 48 delegates from all 14 counties in Mississippi met at Washington for a convention to draft the new state’s

• declaration

• preamble

• contract

• constitution

What is having allegiances to local governments and interests, rather than national ones?

• sectionalism

• protected tariffs

• flatboats

• internal improvements

first female college located in our nation

• Elizabeth Female Academy

• Mississippi State University

• Jackson State University

• Harvard

to withdraw from your union

• sectionalism

• secede

• abolition

• tariff

road known as the devil’s backbone

• Grand Boulevard

• I-55

• Highway 82

• Natchez Trace