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Mississippi Studies Chapter 4 From Territory to Statehood

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Mississippi Territory was divided into which two states?

a)

Tennessee and Arkansas

b)

Georgia and Alabama

c)

Louisiana and Mississippi

d)

Mississippi and Alabama

2.

In what year did Mississippi become a state?

a)

1800

b)

1817

c)

1815

d)

1820

3.

The first capital of Mississippi was

a)

Natchez

b)

Jackson

c)

Tupelo

d)

Greenwood

4.

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

a)

Santa Fe Trail

b)

I-55

c)

Natchez Trace

d)

Chisholm Trail

5.

The current capital of Mississippi is

a)

Greenwood

b)

Tupelo

c)

Jackson

d)

Biloxi

6.

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

a)

declaration

b)

preamble

c)

contract

d)

constitution

7.

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

a)

sectionalism

b)

protected tariffs

c)

flatboats

d)

internal improvements

8.

first female college located in our nation

a)

Elizabeth Female Academy

b)

Mississippi State University

c)

Jackson State University

d)

Harvard

9.

to withdraw from your union

a)

sectionalism

b)

secede

c)

abolition

d)

tariff

10.

road known as the devil’s backbone

a)

Grand Boulevard

b)

I-55

c)

Highway 82

d)

Natchez Trace

11.

large boats with square ends used for carrying freight downstream

a)

Jet skis

b)

speed boats

c)

flatboats

d)

pontoon boats

12.

first college for males located in Mississippi

a)

Ole Miss

b)

Vanderbelt

c)

Alcorn

d)

Jefferson College

13.

this purchase in 1803 doubled the size of our country

a)

Louisiana Purchase

b)

Gadsden Purchase

c)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

d)

Treaty of Paris

14.

adding land to an existing government

a)

improvements

b)

annex

c)

tariff

d)

Flush Times

15.

Battle which made Andrew Jackson a national hero

a)

Battle of Horseshoe Bend

b)

Battle of New Orleans

c)

Battle of the Creeks

d)

Battle of Fort Mims

16.

constructing roads, bridges, canals and railroads

a)

sectionalism

b)

secession

c)

internal improvements

d)

protected tariffs

17.

economic expansion of the 1830s

a)

Roaring 30s

b)

Internal improvements

c)

Flush Times

d)

annexation

18.

tax placed on good that are imported

a)

protective tariff

b)

internal revenue

c)

income tax

d)

economic bundle

19.

included in Mississippi's first and second constitutions

a)

secession

b)

annexation

c)

slavery

d)

abolitionism

20.

Southerners who wanted to secede from the Union

a)

fire-eaters

b)

free soilers

c)

abolitionists

d)

free masons

21.

before the Civil War

a)

annexation

b)

taxes

c)

antebellum

d)

taxation

22.

people who wanted to end slavery

a)

abolitionists

b)

free soilers

c)

fire-eaters

d)

free masons

23.

this ended the Mexican American War

a)

Treaty of New Mexico

b)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

c)

Treaty of Paris

d)

Treaty of Peace

24.

famous Supreme Court Case which ruled slaves were property, not people

a)

Loving v. Virginia

b)

Brown v. Board

c)

Marbury v. Madison

d)

Dred Scott v. Sandford

25.

abolitionist who led a famous raid in Virginia trying to free slaves

a)

John Brown

b)

Aaron Burr

c)

Alexander Hamilton

d)

Andrew Jackson