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CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 3. “THE ROAD TO STATEHOOD”. FIRST EUROPEANS. THE SPANISH AND THE FRENCH WERE THE FIRST EUROPEANS TO EXPLORE MISSISSIPPI. HERNANDO DE SOTO DISCOVERED THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER WHILE SEARCHING FOR TREASURE. THE FRENCH INTRODUCED THE NATIVE AMERICANS TO CHRISTIANITY

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CHAPTER 3

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  1. CHAPTER 3 “THE ROAD TO STATEHOOD”

  2. FIRST EUROPEANS • THE SPANISH AND THE FRENCH WERE THE FIRST EUROPEANS TO EXPLORE MISSISSIPPI. • HERNANDO DE SOTO DISCOVERED THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER WHILE SEARCHING FOR TREASURE. • THE FRENCH INTRODUCED THE NATIVE AMERICANS TO CHRISTIANITY • IN 1789 THE MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY WAS CREATED.

  3. 4 PERIODS OF NATIVE AMERICANS • 1. PALEO • 2. ARCHAIC • 3. WOODLAND • 4. MISSISSIPPIAN

  4. PALEO(ICE AGE) 1ST • ENDED IN 8,000 B.C. (BEFORE CHRIST) • THEY FOLLOWED LARGE ANIMALS • CROSSED A LAND BRIDGE CALLED BERINGIA

  5. ARCHAIC • DURING THEIR TIME HERE, CLIMATE BECAME WARMER AND LARGE ANIMALS DIED OUT. • WE DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THEM BECAUSE THEY HAD NO WRITING SYSTEM.

  6. WOODLAND • LEARNED HOW TO FARM • AN EFFECT OF THEM LEARNING HOW TO FARM WAS THAT THEY NO LONGER HAD TO DEPEND SOLELY ON HUNTING. • BUILT BURIAL MOUNDS AND SHAPED THEM LIKE ANIMALS THROUGHOUT MISSISSIPPI

  7. MISSISSIPPIAN (1,000 A.D. – 1600) • BUILT LARGE RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS ON THE HOMES OF CHIEFS. • THERE IS A MOUND IN NATCHEZ, MISSISSIPPI CALLED THE “GREAT SUN” MOUND

  8. LARGEST TRIBES IN MISSISSIPPI • CHICKASAW • CHOCTAW • NATCHEZ • THESE TRIBES WERE WELL ORGANIZED

  9. GOVERNMENT • EACH TRIBE HAD A TRIBAL COUNCIL • A CHIEF AND AT LEAST 6 COUNCIL MEMBERS

  10. CLAN • THE CLAN WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR PUNISHING CRIMINALS AND PROTECTING THE TRIBE • APPROVED MARRIAGES • HAD TO MARRY SOMEONE FROM A DIFFERENT CLAN

  11. RELIGION • MEN WERE THE RELIGIOUS FIGURES • RELIGION USUALLY REVOLVED AROUND THE SUN

  12. “INTERESTING FACT” • WHEN THE RULER OF THE TRIBE DIED, SOME OF HIS WIVES AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE TRIBE WERE KILLED AND BURIED WITH HIM.

  13. SPANISH EXPLORERS • THE FIRST IN MISSISSIPPI WERE THE SPANISH • INTRODUCED HORSES AND HOGS TO US • BROUGHT DISEASES THAT KILLED MANY NATIVE AMERICANS

  14. NATIVE AMERICANS VS EUROPEANS • IN THE FIGHT FOR AMERICA, DIFFERENT TRIBES EITHER SIDED WITH THE FRENCH, THE ENGLISH, OR THE BRITISH. • THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR WAS A WAR OVER CONTROL OF THE OHIO AND MS RIVER VALLEYS • FRANCE WOUND UP GIVING ALL OF ITS TERRITORY UP EAST OF THE MS RIVER

  15. Mississippi territory • THE NATCHEZ TRACE, SERVED AS THE ROUTE BETWEEN NATCHEZ AND NASHVILLE • IT WAS BARELY EVEN A TRAIL • ROADS WERE NOT GOOD IN THE MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY • ESTABLISHMENTS KNOWN AS STANDS SERVED AS MOTELS FOR TRAVELERS

  16. NORTHWEST ORDINANCE • THIS WAS THE ESTABLISHED GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES • PROHIBITED SLAVERY • TURN TO PAGE 67 IN YOUR BOOK

  17. 3 STAGES FOR A STATE TO BE ADMITTED INTO THE u.s. • 1. THE PRESIDENT, WITH THE APPROVAL OF CONGRESS, APPOINTED A GOVERNER, 3 JUDGES, AND A SECRETARY. • 2. ONCE THE POPULATION REACHED 5,000, THE VOTERS COULD ELECT AN ASSEMBLY TO PASS LAWS AND HAVE A DELEGATE REPRESENT THEM IN CONGRESS • 3. ONCE THE TERRITORY GOT 60,000 PEOPLE, THEY COULD WRITE A STATE CONSTITUTION.

  18. FIRST GOVERNMENT IN MISSISSIPPI • FIRST GOVERNER OF MISSISSIPPI WAS WINTHROP SARGENT • SECRETARY GOVERNER WAS JOHN STEELE. • TWO POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE U.S. AT THIS TIME WERE THE FEDERALIST AND THE REPUBLICANS. • SARGENT WAS CONTROVERSIAL BECAUSE HIS LAWS WERE SAID TO BE TOO STRICT. • DURING THIS TIME, THOMAS JEFFERSON WAS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

  19. LAND IN MISSISSIPPI • THE CHOCTAW AND THE CHICKASAW POSSESED MOST OF THE LAND • MANY DISPUTES AROSE OVER LAND B/C LAND HAD BEEN GRANTED BY THREE DIFFERENT GOVERNMENTS. (FRENCH, ENGLISH, AND SPANISH) • THE GOVERNMENT DIVIDED THE LAND INTO SECTIONS. EACH SECTION IS 640 ACRES.

  20. STATEHOOD FOR MISSISSIPPI • MISSISSIPPI BECAME AN OFFICIAL STATE OF THE UNITED STATES ON DECEMBER 10, 1817. • THE FIRST OFFICIAL GOVERNER OF MISSISSIPPI WAS DAVID HOLMES. • THE FIRST CAPITAL OF MISSISSIPPI WAS WASHINGTON WHICH IS SEVERAL MILES EAST OF NATCHEZ.

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