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JeopardyMississippi State Facts
MississippiTerritory
Mississippi Statehood
Mississippi Industry
Civil War in Mississippi
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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