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

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

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

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

5.  Plantation: Large farm where cotton was grown.

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

11.  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.

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

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

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

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

16.  School terms rarely lasted longer than 3 months.

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

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

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