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MS Studies C4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| First and Second Capital | Natchez (1) & Washington (2) |
| Jefferson College | The most alumina thing was the president of confederate states of America (first state supported institution of higher learning 1802 Washington ) |
| Elizabeth Female Academy | First college institution for women (Washington 1818) |
| Natchez Trace | Overland route that followed a northeasterly path beginning in Natchez |
| Flatboats | Used for carrying merchandise downstream (couldn't go upstream) |
| Steamboat | Made it more safe and made it possible to go up stream |
| Sam Mason & Little Harper | Robbers and river pirates |
| Kaintucks | People who came to sell their merchandise (easy prey before steamboats ) |
| Tecumseh | The famous Shawnee warrior who helped the British organize Indian tribes / came to Mississippi to enlist Chickasaw & Choctaw |
| Heroic Hester | A slave women who was wounded at fort moms but managed to escape and informed American troops about the creek attack |
| Andrew Jackson | The victory of the War of 1812 made him a national hero and this helped him win a presidential election years later (le flurr bluff) |
| Pushmataha | Hero that became famous from war / Choctaw chief / led Chickasaw and Choctaw into war under Americans |
| When did Mississippi become a state? | December 10, 1817 |
| Causes of sectionalism | Protective tariff & slavery. Northerners didn't want slavery because it gave the south advantage of not having to pay as much as they did w/ protective tariff . Southerners didn't want to get rid of slavery bc they depended on it. |
| Internal improvements | Roads. Bridges, canals, & other needs of i transportation |
| Le Fleur's bluff | Recommended a sit for a new state capital as near as the center of the state as possible and it needed up being named after him - Jackson ( General Andrew Jackson) |
| Cause of Mexican war | U.S.- took Texas from Mexico Mexico- did not recognize the independence of Texas |
| Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo | 1848 ended the Mexican war |
| What present states did the treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo acquire to the United States | New Mexico , Arizona, Utah, Nevada, & California |
| John Brown | Led a rain on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859 // during his trial they learned he participated in a pro-slavery attack in 1856 |
| Robert E. Lee | Wanted John Brown captured |
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