CHAPTER 4 QUIZ 1.After 1793, what crop became the number one cash crop grown and sold in Mississippi? 2.In what decade did Mississippi’s population increase most rapidly? 3.Small farmers wanted the capital of Mississippi to be moved from what city in Mississippi to Jackson, because it was located to close to the wealthy people of Natchez and they wanted it closer to them. 4.If I told you that I lived in an antebellum home, when would my house have been built? 5.Who was the Choctaw chief that negotiated treaties with the U.S. Government? 6.When was the first capitol building built in Jackson? 7.When did the state legislature first meet in the capital city of Jackson?] 8.What did slaves believe was a pathway to freedom? 9.What was the idea that if Indians could rely on agriculture rather than hunting, they would need less land and could co-exist with the white settlers? 10.Who was the Shawnee Indian chief who led resistance against white settlers? 11.What are some incentives that slave owners gave slaves for good work?

CHAPTER 4 QUIZ 12. Who was responsible for bringing slaves from Africa to help build the Louisiana territory in the late 1700’s? 13.Who invented the Cotton Gin? 14. In what year was the Cotton Gin invented? 15.What did the Cotton Gin do? 16.What two men negotiated the Treaty of Doak’s Stand for the U.S.? 17.The most widely used railroad in antebellum Mississippi connected which two Mississippi cities? 18.What treaty gave the U.S. 3 million acres of land and gave Indians several thousand dollars worth of merchandise? 19.What treaty gave the U.S. the land where Jackson would be located? 20.What treaty gave the U.S. 10 million acres of land in Northwest and Central Mississippi and allowed the Indians to stay in Mississippi if they registered with the Federal government? 21.What treaty gave the U.S. the rest of North Mississippi and Indians were offered land west of the Mississippi River? 22.What treaty cancelled Indian debts and gave various Indian leaders pensions?

CHAPTER 4 QUIZ 23.Name reasons that slaves did not revolt on a large scale. 24.Name ways that slaves resisted slavery. 25.Name restrictions placed on slaves according to the French Black Codes. 26.What protections for slaves did the French Black Codes include? 27.What was the main occupation for all Mississippians in the early 1800’s? 28.What was the name of the trek the Indians to Oklahoma? 29.After 1832, the board of police governed each county by? 30.The largest religious groups in antebellum Mississippi were the?

CHAPTER 4 QUIZ 31.The Specie Circular of 1836 required that? 32.In Mississippi slaves were concentrated where? 33.William Johnson was a free black man that? 34.Greenwood Leflore, Pushmataha’s nephew did what? 35.Describe public education in Mississippi in 1860.