Chapter 4 Section 1: The Mississippi Territory

Doubled more than the size of the United States

• Mississippi Territory

• Missouri Compromise

• Louisiana Purchase

Large boats with flat bottoms and square ends used for carrying freight downstream

• Long boats

• Flat boats

• steamboats

Mississippi territory capital in the early 1800s

• Washington

• Natchez

• Jackson

• Meridian

two main transportation routes into the Mississippi Territory that were plagued by lawless gangs of robbers

• New Orleans

• MS River

• Tennessee River

• Natchez Trace

Who was the President of the US that made the deal of purchasing the Louisiana Territory?

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Joe Biden

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

What was the cause of the War of 1812?

• The British promised the return Native lands if the Indians helped the British defeat the Americans

• The British promised the return Native lands if the Indians helped the British defeat the Spanish

• The French promised the return Native lands if the Indians helped the French defeat the Americans

Which Indians joined Tecumseh in the War of 1812?

• Chickasaws

• Choctaw

• Cherokee

• Creeks

What leader led the Choctaw and Chickasaws along with the Americans against the Creeks?

• Leflore

• George Washington

• Napoleon

• Pushmataha

What year did Mississippi become a state?

• 2000

• 1817

• 1718

• 1644

Under the Constitution of 1817, Mississippi's first state constitution, slavery was illegal.

• True

• False