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What determines where people live and where industries are located? |
Availability of transportation |
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What was the form of transportation for European explorers? |
Travel by river |
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What are flatboats, and what are they used for? |
Flatboats were wooden boats designed to carry heavy burdens. Flat boats cannot return upstream they were torn apart and sold for lumber once down the river. 40ft long 12ft wide 8 ft deep. |
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What was the most commercial highway )water- in the past and is still a major one today? |
Mississippi River |
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What type of transportation was more evident prior to steamboats? |
Flatboats |
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What is the earliest and most famous road in Mississippi and where did it go? |
Natchez Trace to northeast parts of MS and Tennessee |
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Who paid/funded the Trace to be built? |
U.S. Post office |
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What are "stands"? |
Little inns or B&Bs |
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What is the "Three Chopped Way" and what did it get its name from? |
East west route from Natchez to east Alabama and road builders marked trees to out with three chop marks. |
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What are fords? Why did travelers rely on them? |
Shallow spots in a stream or creek to get across |
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What road built in 1817 connected settlements of the TN River and New Orleans? |
Andrew Jackson's Military Road |
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Were roads of the past like ones of today? Who was the typical traveler? |
Roads were more like trails, walkers or horseback riders. |
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What solved the problem of upstream travel? Name the first one. |
Steamboats, New Orleans. |
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What were some problems faced by steamboats? |
Snags (trees and logs), Steam boilers exploding, Boiler fires |
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What impact did the Civil War have on steamboats? |
Slowed/Stopped trade by destroying steamboats. |
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When did railroading begin in MS? How much did it cost per one mile of track? |
1830's $21,000 per mile |
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When could Mississippians ride the entire railway? |
1860 |
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What was the West Feliciana Railroad? Who paid for it? Where and why was it built? |
MS State legislature payed, Woodville had no streams or creek to float cotton down to the river for shipment. |
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What was the Union's first goal when they invaded the South? |
Destroy the Railroad |
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Why were Natchez, Columbus, Holly Springs, Corinth, Meridian, and Jackson major towns during the Civil War? |
They were all railroad junctions. |
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What area benefited from and used railroad construction the most? |
The piney woods |
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What were the conditions of our roads at the time of the introduction of the automobile? |
Inadequate |
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Who was Theodore Bilbo, and what was his plan? |
He was a candidate for MS governor and he wanted to built roads out of brick. |
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Name and list the year(s) that the first counties that were formed. (before statehood) Name and list the year(s) that the last two counties formed. (one was before statehood and one was after statehood). |
Adams and Jefferson 1799, Pike county (1815) and Humphreys County (1918) |
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What is the Treaty of Doak's Stand? |
Choctaw ceded a huge tract of their land called Hindes, Holmes, Yazoo, Washington, and Bolivar. |
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MS population in 1800? MS population in 1810? |
7,600(1800) 31,306(1810) |
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What percent of MS population is urban? Rural? |
47.1 urban 52.9 rural |
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What city is the commercial center for rich lands of Yazoo and Black Rivers? |
Vicksburg |
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What is a MSA and what does it stand for? Name several. What percent of population lives in a MSA? |
Metropolitan Statistical Area has a population of 100k or more. MSA examples 1) Jackson City 2) DeSoto County 3) Jackson County 4) Harrison - Hancock Counties 5) Forest - Lamar Counties |
