Mississippi Studies
Ch. 2 From Frontier to Statehood
Study Guide
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Where did the first “Americans” come from?
When did the first “Americans” come to America?
Periods of severely cold weather when glaciers covered large parts of the earth were called what?
A group of people moving from one place to another is called what?
The Native Americans developed societies based on what?
What area of Native American development occurred in MS between 800 – 900 A.D.?
What did the early Native Americans of MS begin doing during the Woodland Era?
What happened to the populations of the Native Americans societies of MS as they became more
settled?
9. What area of Native American development occurred in MS between 900 A.D. to the arrival of the
first European explorers?
10. What had become the main way of life for the Native American societies of MS during the
Mississippian Era?
11. What were the rivers of MS used for during the Mississippian Era (two things)?
12. Why were the Native American societies of MS known as mound builders during the Mississippian
Era?
13. What Indian mound near Natchez, MS, is the second largest in the U.S. (the largest is the Cahokia
Mounds of Illinois)?
14. What Indian mound is the sacred mound of the Choctaw tribe?
15. Who was the Spanish explorer who explored the southeastern portion of the U.S. in 1540?
16. How did Hernando De Soto treat the Native Americans he met?
17. What was the main reason the Spanish killed such a large number of Native Americans?
18. Why did the diseases affect the Native Americans and not the Spanish?
19. By the time the French arrived in the late 1600’s, what had happened to most of the large Native
American societies of the Mississippian Era?
20. What were the three largest Native American tribes of MS when the French arrived?
21. What was the largest Native American tribe of MS?
22. What was the Choctaw chief called?
23. What was the main source of food for the Choctaw?
24. What is the only Native American tribe left in MS today?
25. Why were the Chickasaw more warlike than the other Native American tribes of MS?
26. What road were the Chickasaw responsible for creating?
27. What type of Native American tribe were the Natchez, agrarian or hunting?
28. Of the three major Native American tribes, which was the first to have contact with the French?
29. What eventually happened to the Natchez?
30. Did the French treat the Native Americans better or worse than the Spanish?
31. Instead of looking for gold and silver like the Spanish, what two things were the French looking to do
in Mississippi?
32. What are pelts?
33. What did the French try to learn from the Native Americans?
34. Who did the French men take as wives?
35. Who was the Frenchman who built Fort Maurepas?
36. What was Fort Maurepas?
37. What MS town is located on the site of Fort Maurepas today?
38. What was the region d’Iberville was settling known as?
39. Who was Louisiana named after?
40. What French settlement did Bienville establish in Louisiana (the U.S. state)?
41. What settlement did Bienville establish in MS?
42. What French fort was built at the site of Natchez?
43. How did Bienville encourage the French settlers to treat the Native Americans?
44. Why did Bienville encourage the French settlers to learn the language and customs of the Native
Americans?
45. Why did the relationship between the French and the Natchez become strained?
46. What did the Natchez do on November 28, 1729?
47. What did the French do in retaliation for the Natchez attack of Fort Rosalie?
48. What happened to the Natchez tribe?
49. What war took place in America between 1754 and 1763?
50. Who was the French and Indian war between?
51. Who won the French and Indian war?
52. What did England gain control of after they won the French and Indian War?
53. What did the Natchez District become part of after the French and Indian War?
54. What happened on July 4, 1776?
55. What were the colonists of Natchez known as became they remained loyal to England during the
Revolutionary War?
56. Who was the captain in the Continental Army who sailed down the MS River and seized Natchez?
57. Who entered the Revolutionary War in 1779 and captured the Natchez District?
58. What did the Natchez District become part of after the Revolutionary War?
59. Who was the Spanish governor of the Natchez District?
60. Who did Manuel Gayoso encourage to settle in the Natchez District?
61 Where did Gayoso move the town of Natchez to?
62. The upper town of Natchez became home to who?
63. The area of Natchez along the MS River became known as what?
64. Who lived in Natchez-Under-the-Hill?
65. After the Revolutionary War, what two countries claimed the Natchez District?
66. What treaty was created to settle the dispute between the U.S. and Spain over the Natchez District?
67. What became the border between the U.S. and Spanish Florida?
68. What other right did Pinckney’s Treaty give U.S. settlers on the frontier?
69. What did the right of deposit allow U.S. settlers to do?
70. What U.S. law set up the process to create new territories and states on the frontier?
71. Who was appointed as the governor of the Mississippi Territory in 1798?
72. What town was the first territorial capital of Natchez?
73. What town became the second territorial capital of Natchez?
74. Allegiance to local interests is known as what?
75. As more settlers moved into the eastern part of the MS Territory, they came to resent the control of
who over the territorial government?
76. What did the U.S. Congress do to the MS Territory before it was granted statehood?
77. Who became MS’s first governor?
78. What town was MS’s first capital?