Exam Practice MS Studies

_____________ Mountain is the highest point in Mississippi.

Woodall

Approximately ____ percent of Mississippi is forested.

55%

Mississippi lies within the _________________ landform region of the U.S.

Gulf Coastal Plain

Mississippi’s climate is ______________.

Humid Subtropical

What is Mississippi’s most fertile region?

Delta

Unit 2 – Early Beginnings

The rapid growth of MS was made possible by the removal of ____________.

Native Americans

The passage of the ________________ placed a demand for gold on the state banks that they could not meet contributing to the economic Panic of 1837.

Specie Circular

The voyage west to Oklahoma by Native Americans forced from their ancestral lands that resulted in many deaths is called the ______________.

Trail of Tears

The laws passed by the French in 1724 that regulated lives of slaves were called ________.

Black Codes

What are the four periods of early Native American history?

Paleo, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian

What Spanish explorer became the first European to find the Mississippi River while leading an expedition of 600 men through the Southeastern U.S.?

Hernando De Soto

Iberville built _________, the first European settlement in Mississippi, on the present site of Ocean Springs.

Fort Maurepas

The ______ gained Mississippi after defeating France in the French and Indian War.

British

The British lost control of Mississippi to ______ during the Revolutionary War.

Spain

__________ was the theory that if Native Americans relied on farming rather than on hunting, they would need less land and could then co-exist with the settlers.

Assimilation

Unit 3 – Mississippi in Transition

________________ sat at a critical position on the Mississippi River during the Civil War.

Vicksburg

Universal male __________ extended the vote to male citizens of any race or color.

Suffrage

The issues of ____________ and ______________ led Mississippi to join other states and secede from the U.S. resulting in Civil War.

Slavery, State's Rights

The ___________________ was established to help freed slaves with food, shelter, education, healthcare, and employment.

Freedmen's Bureau

Members of the People’s party who tried to use state government to better their constituent’s lives were called ____________.

Populist

The election of __________________ as U.S. president in 1860 was the final event that led to the secession of the southern states.

Abraham Lincoln

The practice of separation of races is called _______________.

Segregation

A person who does not own the land they farm, the house they live in, or the tools they use is called a _____________.

Sharecropper

Before the Civil War ended, Lincoln developed a plan to rebuild the South and restore the southern states to the Union known as _____________.

Reconstruction

Unit 4 – Mississippi in the 20th Century

The ______________ was the worst economic disaster in modern history.

The Great Depression

In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in ______ v. _____________ that the separate-but-equal concept was unconstitutional.

Brown v. Board of Education

The _______ __________ was the movement of many black Mississippians out of the state to escape segregation and take jobs in northern factories after World War I.

Black Exodus

The basic idea of the ________ was to provide federal money to stimulate business in the private sector.

The New Deal

________ was a program designed to develop Mississippi’s industrial base to match its agricultural base by offering incentives to attract industry to Mississippi.

BAWI

Members of the State’s Rights party that adopted the Confederate battle flag as their symbol of resistance to civil rights for blacks were known as ______________.

Dixiecrats

_________ __________ was the head of the Mississippi NAACP that was assassinated by Byron de la Beckwith.

Medgar Evers

The _______________________ made it unlawful for anyone to discriminate on the basis of race if they served the public.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

_________ was the first black student to be admitted to the University of Mississippi.

James Meredith

Unit 5 – Contemporary Mississippi

The production, design, and overhaul of ships and commercial marine structures are the manufacturing activities at _________.

Ingalls Shipbuilding

In 2000, Mississippi ranked ____ among the 50 states based on population.

31st

Where does Mississippi rank nationally in catfish production?

First

Unit 6 – Mississippi Arts and Letters

Who is our current governor?

Tate Reeves

Who is the current Ocean Springs School District superintendent?

Bonita Coleman

Who is your favorite teacher?

Mrs. Bond!!!!!!

The ____ was the movement of many black Mississippians out of state to escape segregation and take jobs in northern factories after World War I.

Great Migration

In 1896, the U. S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in the ___ __v.__ _____ case that legally established the separate-but-equal concept.

Plessey v. Furgeson