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Antebellum Mississippi

Antebellum Mississippi. Land Boom, Improvements in Transportation, Public Education, and Religion. Assimilation: to take something in and make it like the thing it has joined. Trail of Tears: the long trek of Native Americans out west to present day Oklahoma.

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Antebellum Mississippi

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  1. Antebellum Mississippi Land Boom, Improvements in Transportation, Public Education, and Religion

  2. Assimilation: to take something in and make it like the thing it has joined.

  3. Trail of Tears: the long trek of Native Americans out west to present day Oklahoma.

  4. Antebellum: refers to the time period before the Civil War.

  5. Plantation: Large farm where cotton was grown.

  6. Mississippi Capital • The first capital of Mississippi was Natchez. It was later moved to Washington, MS after a dispute among citizens.

  7. Mississippi Capital • In 1821, the capital of Mississippi was moved from Washington to Jackson, named after Andrew Jackson. • Clinton lost by one vote.

  8. Board of police • Board of Police: Small county government that governed each county.

  9. Andrew Jackson • Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States in 1828.

  10. A land boom is a population explosion. • Mississippi experienced a land boom in the 1830s due to the removal of the Choctaw and Chickasaw from the land.

  11. Flush times refers to very prosperous times. • Times in Mississippi were great! Land was cheap, cotton prices were high, banks extended very easy credit, and banks issued paper money freely.

  12. Specie: The gold or silver used to give paper money its value.

  13. Specie Circular: Stated that the federal government would no longer accept paper money for the purchase of land.

  14. Transportation Improvements • Once they were available, steamboats carried cotton and other goods up and down the Mississippi River.

  15. Transportation • The building of railroads helped to solve the problems of land transportation in Mississippi.

  16. School terms rarely lasted longer than 3 months.

  17. School terms were just long enough to concentrate on reading, writing, and math.

  18. For most people, their only education was spent in one-room school houses with teachers who knew little more than they did.

  19. Religion in Antebellum Mississippi • Methodist and Baptist were the largest Christian denominations that existed in Mississippi.

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