Ding! Bell Ringer 🔔 Mississippi Studies

The _________ ___________ is the time from its establishment as an Ameri-

can territory in 1798 to the beginning of the Civil War in 1861.

• colonial period

• jamestown

• antebellum period

• Delta-Yazoo

Answer explanation

Antebellum, according to the online dictionary, is a time before a war.

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The _______ __________ period is from the founding of the English colony at Jamestown in 1607 to the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

• antebellum period

• Declaration of Independence

• colonial period

• agricultural

Mississippi is divided into _____ soil regions.

Answer explanation

Eugene Woldemar Hilgard divided the state into sixteen different soil regions. More recent geologist have modified Hilgard’s map by reducing the number of soil regions to 12.

In the 1830s, a great land rush brought

thousands of settlers from the _________ states into Mississippi.

• Georgia

• Texas

• Atlantic

• Botson

These settlers brought _________ and __________ of the colonial South with them.

• customs and traditions

• corn and hay

• slaves and cattle

• cotton and farming

List the 2 customs and traditions brought to Mississippi by the Atlantic settlers.