This was the site of the end of the Civil War

The government formed by the southern states that seceded from the union

The arsenal of the US that was fired on by Confederates and began the Civil War.

To keep the balance of free and slave states, Misouri was allowed to become a slave state and Maine a free state

a vote by the people living there

The political party formed to oppose the expansion of slavery

to withdraw from the union

states that supported slavery

Principle that the rights of the individual state should come before the rights of the federal government

Who was the U. S. Senator who resigned from office to come back and help Mississippi and was elected as the President of the newly formed Confederate States?

Who won the battle of Vicksburg?

This city was key to both sides during the Civil War as whoever controlled the city would control the movement of troops and supplies.

The Republican Party won the Presidential election of 1860 with Abraham Lincoln becoming the new president which caused

When Mississippi seceded from the union, this U.S. Senator resigned his seat and returned home to help the state.

This valuable confederate general was shot as he was riding around the perimeter of the battlefield at Shiloh.

He was the commander of the confederate forces in Mississippi

The most important battle in Mississippi.

The line of latitude established by the MO Compromise to determine where slavery could spread to was...

It was the trek of Native Americans to Indian Territory

1) He is the most prominent free black man in Natchez; he was a barber who owned town lots, a farm, and slaves.

2) He got murdered but his alleged killer got away because slaves couldn't testify.

Within 40 years after attaining statehood, Mississippi was producing more ______ than any other state.

The cotton gin was invented by ______ in 1793.

This was the two largest religious denominations in Mississippi in the antebellum period.

This private school (that still exists) is in Clinton, Ms but began as Hamstead Academy in 1826. In 1850 it became a Baptist school.

The _______________ was established in 1840, but did not begin operation in Oxford until 1848. By the time of the Civil War, several hundred students were enrolled.

Was a Choctaw chief Received a military funeral Traveled to Washington to negotiate a treaty