MS climate

MS average temperature

Which of the following is not a common natural hazard in MS?

Where does the MS river begin?

Which is not a main port of MS?

Most fertile region in MS

Which soil makes the delta so fertile?

Which is not one of the 2 main interstates?

Which is not a geographical region in MS?

Which river forms MS western border?

Who were the first Europeans to explore MS?

First European settlement?

Tornado season occurs April-June

What is a land bridge that connected Russia to North America?

What is a group of closely related families?

British term for corn

Early native american cultures that build earthen mounds

Native American mounds were built for ritual and burial purposes

the border was settled, and the US and Spain concluded a trade agreement. New Orleans was reopened, and Americans could transfer goods without paying cargo fees (right of deposit) when they transferred goods from one ship to another.

What year did MS become a territory?

What year did MS become a state?

He was an American politician and a Virginia congressman, first governor of MS

Spanish explorer that mapped the southern half of the us

How many MS constitutions are there?

What is the largest mound building culture?

a mound sacred to the Choctaw tribe

Which country was the first to send explorers to MS?

Which country did not rule the Natchez District?

a storm that arises in the Atlantic ocean and covers hundreds of miles

Water in lakes, ponds, and the ocean

Rain, snow, sleet, and hail

concerns the ways people are linked with regions, cultures, and people beyond their immediate environment

A long-term average of weather conditions is a climate

a geographical area draining into a river or reservoir

East and West of prime meridian

North and South of the equator

refers to the day-to-day conditions and changes in the atmosphere

a funnel shaped storm that develops when warm, moist air meets cold air

Includes climate, water, landforms, soil, energy and mineral resources, vegetation, and wildlife

can either be absolute or relative

how humans use, adapt to, and change the environment

Water found under the earths surface

the world can be divided by these either by using cultural or natural characteristics

Antebellum means before the war

body that governed each mississippi county in 1832, they were elected officials.

The ability to for people to make their own decisions

What percent of MS population was enslaved in 1857?

First Capital of MS

Native American Indian chief who encourage indians to get along with whites. (Choctaw leader who encouraged native Americans to get along with whites)

Native American chief who encouraged violence on the whites

Most famous free black in MS

The Civil War lasted from April 12, 1861-April 9, 1865

The 2 largest Christian denominations in MS in the 1800s were methodist and baptist

Which is not a cause of the Civil War?

What is the nickname for the territory in Kansas where many people were killed?

Who was the 16th President of the U.S.?

Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat

Which state was the first to secede from the Union?

Which state was 2nd to secede from the union?

Name of the new states formed from seceding from the union

Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?

Which is the capital of the south?

Which MS city was key to controlling the MS river?

What is the nickname of Jackson, MS?

What percent of MS population owned slaves in 1860?

What are the laws for newly freed slaves?

Collective name given to the largest tribes living east of the MS river

What did the 13th amendment do?

Which amendment gave black males citizenship?

Which amendment gave black males the right to vote?

term for former slaves; uneducated; 400,000 in Mississippi

white supremacy group; used violence and intimidation against blacks and other minorities; founded 1866; tried to intimidate blacks from voting on the 1868 constitution.

Dates of reconstruction

Name of the Union to bring back confederate states into the Union

Presidential and Congressional are 2 types of Reconstruction

Number of newly freed blacks living in MS in 1865

organization formed in March 1865 by the U.S. Army and Congress to help African Americans adjust to their new freedom; provided the following: Homes, Work, Food,

What year did MS readmit to the Union?

Who was the first African American senator from MS?

Supported congressional reconstruction; 3 groups within party

Name given to informal deal to elect Rutherford B. Hayes in exchange for removal of Northern troops from Southern states. (formally ended reconstruction)

was devised by the Democratic Party in that state to overthrow the Republican Party in Mississippi by means of organized threats of violence and suppression or purchase of the black vote. Democrats wanted to regain political control of the legislature and governor's office. (allowed Mississippi to bypass the 14 and 15th amendment)

Who was the president whose orders forced MS to approve the constitution of 1868

Who became President after the assassination of Abe Lincoln?

Who was the first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. senate?

Who was the chairman of the Constitutional Convention of 1868?

Who killed Abraham Lincoln?

Who was appointed Military Governor of MS during Reconstruction?

Who was the first Republican governor of MS?

Who was the first Governor of MS elected after the Civil War?

African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century

The ability to buy something and pay for it later

Prohibiting the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes,"

Which amendment allows equal voting rights no matter the race or gender?

Where someone does not own land but lives and farms on them for a portion of the yield

Time where blacks and certain ethnic groups were seperated from whites

What percent of MS was black in the early 1900s?

The 2 main sharecropping crops are tobacco and cotton

Who moved to MS after reconstruction?

MS governor for 40 years; made positive reforms in the education system

Former slave that serves as a hunting guide for Theodore Bilbo

Severe U.S. economic depression lasting from 1929 until 1940

2 factors causing poor education in MS in the early 1900s were racism and a weak economy

Significant decade of the Civil Rights movement

Believing that races should be together rather than separated

May 17 1954 the US supreme court ruled that the separate but equal concept was unconstitutional.

Rights of political or social freedom

Group of white supremacist in the south during the civil rights movement

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, organization founded in 1909 to protect civil rights of African Americans- very active during civil rights era (free-bee)

Made it unlawful for anyone to discriminate on the basis of race if they served the public

Federal law that outlawed discrimination practices used to prevent people to vote

Happened in 1964 voter registration drive

Industrial farming; becomes large part of MS's economy

The ability not to be denied service to work at certain places regardless of race

Who was the 14 year old black boy who was murdered for flirting with a white woman?

James Meredith was the first African American to be enrolled at Ole Miss

Medgar Evers was murdered in his car

A resistance used in the Civil Rights era where a group walked into a place and refused to leave

FBI code name used for the investigation of the 3 murders of Civil Rights workers

Byron De La Blackwith killed Medgar Evers

Population of MS

What year did Jackson become the capital?

Richard Wright was a very successful African American writer

Eudora Welty won a _________ prize