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$100 Question from Mississippi State Facts

What is the capital city of Mississippi?

$100 Answer from Mississippi State Facts

Jackson?

$200 Question from Mississippi State Facts

What is the state flower and tree of Mississippi?

$200 Answer from Mississippi State Facts

Magnolia TreeMagnolia Flower

$300 Question from Mississippi State Facts

What is the land mammal of Mississippi?

$300 Answer from Mississippi State Facts

White-tailed Deer

$400 Question from Mississippi State Facts

What is the state fish of Mississippi?

$400 Answer from Mississippi State Facts

Largemouth Bass

$500 Question from Mississippi State Facts

When did Mississippi gain their statehood?

$500 Answer from Mississippi State Facts

December 10, 1817

$100 Question from Mississippi Territory

In 1803 the United States bought the land west of the

Mississippi River from which country?

$100 Answer from Mississippi Territory

France

$200 Question from Mississippi Territory

This event doubled the size of our country and gave

Americans control of the Mississippi River

$200 Answer from Mississippi Territory

Louisiana Purchase

$300 Question from Mississippi Territory

The Natchez Trace was a frontier road between

Natchez and which city and state?

$300 Answer from Mississippi Territory

Nashville, Tennessee

$400 Question from Mississippi Territory

The first Steamboat to dock in Mississippi was called what?

$400 Answer from Mississippi Territory

New Orleans

$500 Question from Mississippi Territory

Many Mississippians died from Malaria and Yellow Fever which are diseases carried by what insect?

$500 Answer from Mississippi Territory

Mosquito

$100 Question from Mississippi Statehood

In order to become a state, a territory had to have a population of how many

people?

$100 Answer from Mississippi Statehood

60,000

$200 Question from Mississippi Statehood

Where was the first capital of Mississippi

located?

$200 Answer from Mississippi Statehood

Natchez

$300 Question from Mississippi Statehood

The capital Natchez was renamed this to honor

General Andrew Jackson

$300 Answer from Mississippi Statehood

Jackson

$400 Question fromMississippi Statehood

David Holmes was selected to be

Mississippi’s first state governor. Who is our

current governor?

$400 Answer from Mississippi Statehood

Haley Barbour

$500 Question from Mississippi Statehood

Mississippi became what number state to join the

United States of America in 1817?

$500 Answer from Mississippi Statehood

Twentieth

$100 Question from Mississippi Industry

In the 1800’s there was a popular saying,

“Cotton is ______.”

$100 Answer from Mississippi Industry

King

“Cotton is King”

$200 Question from Mississippi Industry

What was the most famous cash crop is

Mississippi?

$200 Answer from Mississippi Industry

Cotton

$300 Question from Mississippi Industry

Slaves had to work from “Can to Can’t.” What does this mean?

$300 Answer from Mississippi Industry

It meant that the slaves had to work from

“Can see daylight” to “Can’t see daylight.”

$400 Question from Mississippi Industry

On January 1861, Mississippi seceded from

the Union.

What does secede mean?

$400 Answer from Mississippi Industry

Secede means to withdraw.Mississippi became known as

the Confederate States of America.

$500 Question from Mississippi Industry

The Civil War, or war between states, lasted

how many years?

$500 Answer from Mississippi Industry

4 years

$100 Question from Civil War in Mississippi

The battle of Shiloh happened when Confederate soldiers were

trying to protect what in Corinth, Mississippi?

$100 Answer from Civil War in Mississippi

The important railroad station.

$200 Question from Civil War in Mississippi

By the summer of 1862, the ______ Army controlled all of

the Mississippi River except for four miles near Vicksburg.

$200 Answer from Civil War in Mississippi

Union

$300 Question from Civil War in Mississippi

Mississippians had to make do with what they had during the Civil War. They would make

coffee out of burned _____ and _____ leaves.

$300 Answer from Civil War in Mississippi

Burned corn and raspberry leaves

$400 Question from Civil War in Mississippi

In September 1862 President Lincoln announced the _______ _______

which meant that all of the enslaved people in the Confederate states

would be “forever free.”

$400 Answer from Civil War in Mississippi

Emancipation Proclamation

$500 Question from Civil War in Mississippi

Four years after the start of the Civil War, General _______ ___ _______

surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox, Virginia.

$500 Answer from Civil War in Mississippi

Robert E. Lee

Final Jeopardy

_________ was the period of time when the southern states were

brought back to the Union.

Final Jeopardy Answer

What is Reconstruction?