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Mississippi Studies
study for exam this week.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| List the natural hazard that affect Mississippi each year. | floods, lightning, and hurricanes. |
| In what part of Mississippi could the New Madrid fault cause an earthquake? | Northwest. |
| The water supply for msot Mississippi towns and cities comes from____________. | groundwater. |
| Where are Mississippi's important ports located? | Vicksburg, Greenville, and Natchez. |
| In the Black Prairie region, cotton has been replaced by_______________.(products) | Hay, soybeans, and cattle. |
| Landform regions located in Southern Mississippi include_______&____________. | Pine hills & Coastal Meadows. |
| Plant growth is decreased in(type of soil) | Gray soil |
| The soil in the Black Prairie is difficult to cultivate because of the ______. | clay. |
| A tool to help geographers understand Earth's ecocsystems is the ______________. | GIS(geographic information system) |
| Eplain why the Mississippians built their villiages near streams? | The waterways provided areas with fertile soil. |
| Clans within each Native American village have the power to ______________. | Punish criminals, seek revenge, and approve marriages. |
| The religious beliefs on the southeastern Indians focused on fire, which represented the ___. | sun. |
| Which French explorers visited Mississippi? | Tonti Calivier, La selle, Membre. |
| True or False: The original name for Natchez was Fort St. Pierre. | FALSE. |
| The political system of the early eighteenth century was not characterized by the ___________________________. | voting rights for women. |
| At the end of the American Revolution, the only two Indian nations in Mississippi were the Choctaw & _______. | Chickasaw. |
| List the men who experimented with ways to make growing cotton more productive. | Rush Nutt, Martin Phillips, and Henry Vick. |
| The most important parts of a slave's diet were ____&___. | Pork and Corn. |
| List the reasons for the decline of free blacks in Mississippi after 1840. | Mississippi law required free slaves to leave the state. Slave owners didn't want to provide funds for thems to the state and gov. feared slaves would revolt. |
| Mississippians who bought land with bank notes that were issued during the early 1830's had problems becuase the notes were ___________. | worth less than face value. |
| The value of paper money is determined by ______... | The gold silver that backs it up. |
| John C. Calhoun supported __________. | Nullification, slaves rights, and slavery. |
| Practice of allowing the people who lived in an area to decide whether or not to allow slavery is known as.... | Popular sovereignty. |
| Explain why the Kansas-Nebraska act revived the slavery controversy. | Kansas was suppose to be a free state according to Missourri Compromise. |
| Who propose the ordinance of secession at the Mississippi convention? | Lucius Lamar. |
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