Antebellum Mississippi Land Boom, Improvements in Transportation, Public Education, and Religion.

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Antebellum Mississippi Land Boom, Improvements in Transportation, Public Education, and Religion

 Assimilation: to take something in and make it like the thing it has joined.

 Trail of Tears: the long trek of Native Americans out west to present day Oklahoma.

 Antebellum: refers to the time period before the Civil War.

 Plantation: Large farm where cotton was grown.

Mississippi Capital  The first capital of Mississippi was Natchez. It was later moved to Washington, MS after a dispute among citizens.

Mississippi Capital  In 1821, the capital of Mississippi was moved from Washington to Jackson, named after Andrew Jackson.  Clinton lost by one vote.

Board of police  Board of Police: Small county government that governed each county.

Andrew Jackson  Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States in 1828.

A land boom is a population explosion.  Mississippi experienced a land boom in the 1830s due to the removal of the Choctaw and Chickasaw from the land.

 Flush times refers to very prosperous times.  Times in Mississippi were great! Land was cheap, cotton prices were high, banks extended very easy credit, and banks issued paper money freely.

 Specie: The gold or silver used to give paper money its value.

 Specie Circular: Stated that the federal government would no longer accept paper money for the purchase of land.

Transportation Improvements  Once they were available, steamboats carried cotton and other goods up and down the Mississippi River.

Transportation  The building of railroads helped to solve the problems of land transportation in Mississippi.

 School terms rarely lasted longer than 3 months.

 School terms were just long enough to concentrate on reading, writing, and math.

 For most people, their only education was spent in one-room school houses with teachers who knew little more than they did.

Religion in Antebellum Mississippi  Methodist and Baptist were the largest Christian denominations that existed in Mississippi.