“THE ROAD TO STATEHOOD”
 THE
SPANISH AND THE FRENCH WERE THE
FIRST EUROPEANS TO EXPLORE MISSISSIPPI.
 HERNANDO DE SOTO DISCOVERED THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER WHILE SEARCHING FOR
TREASURE.
 THE FRENCH INTRODUCED THE NATIVE
AMERICANS TO CHRISTIANITY
 IN 1789 THE MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY WAS
CREATED.
 1.
PALEO
 2. ARCHAIC
 3. WOODLAND
 4. MISSISSIPPIAN
ENDED
IN 8,000 B.C. (BEFORE
CHRIST)
THEY FOLLOWED LARGE ANIMALS
CROSSED A LAND BRIDGE CALLED
BERINGIA
DURING
THEIR TIME HERE,
CLIMATE BECAME WARMER AND
LARGE ANIMALS DIED OUT.
WE DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT
THEM BECAUSE THEY HAD NO
WRITING SYSTEM.
 LEARNED
HOW TO FARM
 AN EFFECT OF THEM LEARNING HOW
TO FARM WAS THAT THEY NO LONGER
HAD TO DEPEND SOLELY ON
HUNTING.
 BUILT BURIAL MOUNDS AND SHAPED
THEM LIKE ANIMALS THROUGHOUT
MISSISSIPPI
 BUILT
LARGE RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS ON
THE HOMES OF CHIEFS.
 THERE IS A MOUND IN NATCHEZ,
MISSISSIPPI CALLED THE “GREAT SUN”
MOUND
 CHICKASAW
 CHOCTAW
 NATCHEZ
 THESE
TRIBES WERE WELL ORGANIZED
 EACH
TRIBE HAD A TRIBAL COUNCIL
 A CHIEF AND AT LEAST 6 COUNCIL
MEMBERS
 THE
CLAN WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR PUNISHING
CRIMINALS AND PROTECTING THE TRIBE
 APPROVED MARRIAGES
 HAD TO MARRY SOMEONE FROM A DIFFERENT
CLAN
 MEN
WERE THE RELIGIOUS FIGURES
 RELIGION USUALLY REVOLVED
AROUND THE SUN
WHEN
THE RULER OF THE TRIBE
DIED, SOME OF HIS WIVES AND
OTHER MEMBERS OF THE TRIBE
WERE KILLED AND BURIED WITH
HIM.
 THE
FIRST IN MISSISSIPPI WERE THE SPANISH
 INTRODUCED HORSES AND HOGS TO US
 BROUGHT DISEASES THAT KILLED MANY
NATIVE AMERICANS
 IN
THE FIGHT FOR AMERICA, DIFFERENT
TRIBES EITHER SIDED WITH THE FRENCH, THE
ENGLISH, OR THE BRITISH.
 THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR WAS A WAR
OVER CONTROL OF THE OHIO AND MS RIVER
VALLEYS
 FRANCE WOUND UP GIVING ALL OF ITS
TERRITORY UP EAST OF THE MS RIVER
 THE
NATCHEZ TRACE, SERVED AS THE ROUTE
BETWEEN NATCHEZ AND NASHVILLE
 IT WAS BARELY EVEN A TRAIL
 ROADS WERE NOT GOOD IN THE MISSISSIPPI
TERRITORY
 ESTABLISHMENTS KNOWN AS STANDS SERVED
AS MOTELS FOR TRAVELERS
 THIS
WAS THE ESTABLISHED GOVERNMENT OF
THE UNITED STATES
 PROHIBITED SLAVERY
 TURN TO PAGE 67 IN YOUR BOOK
 1.
THE PRESIDENT, WITH THE APPROVAL OF
CONGRESS, APPOINTED A GOVERNER, 3
JUDGES, AND A SECRETARY.
 2. ONCE THE POPULATION REACHED 5,000,
THE VOTERS COULD ELECT AN ASSEMBLY TO
PASS LAWS AND HAVE A DELEGATE REPRESENT
THEM IN CONGRESS
 3. ONCE THE TERRITORY GOT 60,000 PEOPLE,
THEY COULD WRITE A STATE CONSTITUTION.
 FIRST
GOVERNER OF MISSISSIPPI WAS
WINTHROP SARGENT
 SECRETARY GOVERNER WAS JOHN STEELE.
 TWO POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE U.S. AT THIS
TIME WERE THE FEDERALIST AND THE
REPUBLICANS.
 SARGENT WAS CONTROVERSIAL BECAUSE HIS
LAWS WERE SAID TO BE TOO STRICT.
 DURING THIS TIME, THOMAS JEFFERSON WAS
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
 THE
CHOCTAW AND THE CHICKASAW
POSSESED MOST OF THE LAND
 MANY DISPUTES AROSE OVER LAND B/C LAND
HAD BEEN GRANTED BY THREE DIFFERENT
GOVERNMENTS. (FRENCH, ENGLISH, AND
SPANISH)
 THE GOVERNMENT DIVIDED THE LAND INTO
SECTIONS. EACH SECTION IS 640 ACRES.
 MISSISSIPPI
BECAME AN OFFICIAL STATE OF
THE UNITED STATES ON DECEMBER 10, 1817.
 THE FIRST OFFICIAL GOVERNER OF MISSISSIPPI
WAS DAVID HOLMES.
 THE FIRST CAPITAL OF MISSISSIPPI WAS
WASHINGTON WHICH IS SEVERAL MILES EAST
OF NATCHEZ.