KNOW THE FACTS Chapter 4

Directions: On the map of Mississippi below,

locate and label each of the following
Mississippi cities.

Washington
Jackson
Vicksburg
Natchez
Meridian
Oxford

Directions: Complete each of the following

statements by filling in the correct word or words in the space provided.
1. By 1860, most Native Americans had ceded their land to the ___________government___.

2. Within 40 years after attaining statehood, Mississippi was producing more____cotton___

than any other state.

3. In 1822, the Mississippi capital was moved from washington_____ to ____Jackson___.

4. During the 1840s, a capital___ was built for the Mississippi legislature and a
mansion___ for the governor of Mississippi.

5. Mississippi's second constitution was written in __1832____. (year)

6. The cotton gin was invented by _____Eli__ Whitney___ in 1793. (person’s name)

7. President Andrew Jackson transferred federal funds to state banks, called "_________era of
pet bank__" because of their political connections.

8. From Mobile and New Orleans, cotton was shipped to textile mills in new England
________ and ____great_ Britain___. (locations)

9. Students who attended public schools in nineteenth-century Mississippi studied _reading__,

writing___, and arithmetic_. (subjects/classes)