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$100 Question from Mississippi State Facts What is the capital city of Mississippi?
$200 Question from Mississippi State Facts What is the state flower and tree of Mississippi?
$200 Answer from Mississippi State Facts Magnolia Tree Magnolia 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?
$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?
$100 Question from Mississippi Statehood In order to become a state, a territory had to have a population of how many people?
$200 Question from Mississippi Statehood Where was the first capital of Mississippi located?
$300 Question from Mississippi Statehood The capital Natchez was renamed this to honor General Andrew 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?
$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?
$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.
$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 EmancipationProclamation
$500 Question from Civil War in Mississippi Four years after the start of the Civil War, General _______ ___ _______ surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox, Virginia.
