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53 Cards in this Set
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When did the great railroad begin in MS? |
1880 but it lasted from 1880's til 1930's |
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After 1840, __________ was added to sawmills which allowed many more mills to open on the Gulf Coast. |
Steam power |
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Why does yellow pine resist decay? |
Had high resin content (sap) |
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What city, built as a shipping port, owned the original Gulf and Ship island Railroad? |
Gulfport |
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What year time frame was the great lumber boom in MS? What did we rank in US lumber business? When was the peak of the lumber boom? |
1908 to 1915 MS was 3rd in Lumber in US |
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When was all of the pine timber in MS almost depleted? |
1938 |
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What are skidders? |
Cranes or booms dragged the logs |
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Prior to the Civil War, MS was the nation's leading state in the production of what? |
Cotton |
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Therefore, what destroyed MS cotton economy? |
Civil War |
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Was it easy to get a loan after the Civil War in MS? Why or why not? |
No, banking system was destroyed by Civil war. |
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What was the Union Blockade? |
Union blocked ports to prevent selling cotton to Europe with warships. |
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What is a sharecropper and how much did they normally farm? |
Someone who slaves and form someones land 10-20 acres. |
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What is a furnish? |
Line of credit until crops were harvested |
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What type of crops did sharecroppers grow, and what did they not grow? |
They grew cash crops / no food crops |
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How much % did the sharecropper keep and how much did he release? |
50 kept 50 to land owner |
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What were share tenants? |
Tenants could provide all equipment to farm land they could keep more crop and provided their own furnish. |
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What was a lien in regards to a sharecropper? |
Share cropper's crop had to be sold through the merchant before any money went to the farmer or share cropper to secure furnish. |
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What kind of freight charges did farmers pay, and what type of interest rates did they pay? |
High rates |
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What was the "Defender" and the Great Migration"? |
The Defender was a newspaper to get blacks to come north and stop being oppressed. The great migration is when they moved north. |
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In the early 1900's, what crop did MS depend? |
Cotton |
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What insect destroys a cotton plant? |
Boll weavals |
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What affect did WWI have on MS farmers? |
It brought property because war demands cotton. |
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What was the Great Depression? |
A great economic disaster the made 30% of all Americans lose their jobs. |
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What happens when the supply of cotton is large and demand is low? |
There is too much cotton and not enough buyers so it makes everyone drop their prices to extremely low prices to try to break even or less to compete. |
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What was the price of cotton in 1932, and how much did it cost to grow per pound? |
5 cent per pound sold, 8 cent per pound to grow |
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What happened in 1932 to MS farming land? How many farmers lost their land and how much land was lost? |
10% of all Mississippians lost farm land to debt. |
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What was the agricultural Adjustment act? |
Farm program of the New Deal, provided direct money payments to farmers who agreed to limit the size of their crops. |
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What was the Farm Security Administration? |
Another program that worked to turn share croppers into small farmers. |
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What affect did WWII have on cotton prices? |
Stimulated cotton by demanding more and increased the price of cotton. |
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What was MS State founded for? |
Provide agricultural education and improve knowledge and skills of MS farmers. |
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How did farming change after WWII? What aspect of it? |
Mechanization of farming |
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What machine helped cotton farmers at harvest time? |
Tractors Mechanical cotton picker |
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In 1900, how many MS people worked on farms? How many in 1995? |
75% of all MS in 1900 2% 1995 |
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List 4 agricultural products of MS. |
Soybeans, cotton, rice, catfish |
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What is capital, in terms of business? |
Money you need up front |
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What did the Constitution of 1890 do for MS land owners? |
Legislature got power to limit the amount of land that could be owned or bought by non-Mississippians. |
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What is BAWI? |
Balance Agriculture with Industry |
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Paul B. Johnson Sr. |
Opposed to Bawi (1940-1943) tried to kill it but couldn't |
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Martin Sennett Conner |
governor who used his own money to buy food for the patients at Whitfield state. (1932) |
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Hugh White |
Leader of Bawi and was government (1936-1940) |
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Fenwick Peck |
Lumber business owner, built MS Central, scranton penn railroad, organized U.S. Lumber company in (1910). MS assets $26m |
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J.W. Wesson |
owned MS mills used cotton seeds for vegetable oil. |
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Tomas Bailey |
revived Bawi after Paul B. Johnson tried to end it (1944-1946) |
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Theodore bilbo |
governor represented small farmers who were suspicious of big business. (1912 - 1918, 1928-1932) |
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Fielding L Wright |
revived Bawi after Paul B. Johnson tried to end it (1946-1952) |
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FDR |
president made the new Deal and Agricultural adjustment |
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James Vandormen |
1904 - 1908 vetoed increase on value of land for non-Mississippians represented small farmers scared of big business. |
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N2K (Need to know) |
New buildings, low wages, and tax exemptions attracted business to MS area. |
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N2K This is on test |
Ingalls shipbuilding at Pascagoula was the largest industry to come to Ms in 1938 |
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N2K |
Low wage, labor intensive garment factories were attracted in Ms during this time period. |
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Camp Shelby and Keesler were largest military bases in MS during WWII. |
New plants in MS provided more than 10,000 jobs during WWII. |
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N2K |
Paul Johnson led the Research and Development Center to study economic growth in MS. |
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Camp Shelby and Keesler were largest military bases in MS during WWII. |
