WorksheetsMississippi Studies Chapter 4 From Territory to Statehood
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
The Mississippi Territory was divided into which two states?
Tennessee and Arkansas
Georgia and Alabama
Louisiana and Mississippi
Mississippi and Alabama
In what year did Mississippi become a state?
1800
1817
1815
1820
The first capital of Mississippi was
Natchez
Jackson
Tupelo
Greenwood
Which road in Mississippi runs from Natchez to Nashville, Tennessee?
Santa Fe Trail
I-55
Natchez Trace
Chisholm Trail
The current capital of Mississippi is
Greenwood
Tupelo
Jackson
Biloxi
In July of 1817, 48 delegates from all 14 counties in Mississippi met at Washington for a convention to draft the new state’s
declaration
preamble
contract
constitution
What is having allegiances to local governments and interests, rather than national ones?
sectionalism
protected tariffs
flatboats
internal improvements
first female college located in our nation
Elizabeth Female Academy
Mississippi State University
Jackson State University
Harvard
to withdraw from your union
sectionalism
secede
abolition
tariff
road known as the devil’s backbone
Grand Boulevard
I-55
Highway 82
Natchez Trace
large boats with square ends used for carrying freight downstream
Jet skis
speed boats
flatboats
pontoon boats
first college for males located in Mississippi
Ole Miss
Vanderbelt
Alcorn
Jefferson College
this purchase in 1803 doubled the size of our country
Louisiana Purchase
Gadsden Purchase
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treaty of Paris
adding land to an existing government
improvements
annex
tariff
Flush Times
Battle which made Andrew Jackson a national hero
Battle of Horseshoe Bend
Battle of New Orleans
Battle of the Creeks
Battle of Fort Mims
constructing roads, bridges, canals and railroads
sectionalism
secession
internal improvements
protected tariffs
economic expansion of the 1830s
Roaring 30s
Internal improvements
Flush Times
annexation
tax placed on good that are imported
protective tariff
internal revenue
income tax
economic bundle
included in Mississippi's first and second constitutions
secession
annexation
slavery
abolitionism
Southerners who wanted to secede from the Union
fire-eaters
free soilers
abolitionists
free masons
before the Civil War
annexation
taxes
antebellum
taxation
people who wanted to end slavery
abolitionists
free soilers
fire-eaters
free masons
this ended the Mexican American War
Treaty of New Mexico
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Peace
famous Supreme Court Case which ruled slaves were property, not people
Loving v. Virginia
Brown v. Board
Marbury v. Madison
Dred Scott v. Sandford
abolitionist who led a famous raid in Virginia trying to free slaves
John Brown
Aaron Burr
Alexander Hamilton
Andrew Jackson
