Money, Mississippi

Mississippi was important during America’s Civil War. It played a huge part as an aid of the south, and was genuinely excited for the war in the beginning. The first battle of the war in Mississippi, the battle of Shiloh, cited Mississippi’s resistance against the Union army and their advancements to take over a vital source of transportation in the state, Corinth. With this town, the Union would be able to take over the railroads and the Tennessee River. Unfortunately for the Union and fortunately for the Confederacy, this battle was claimed a draw, because neither armies could claim victory. Another significant battle that would take place in Mississippi is the battle of Champion Hill. For the victor of this skirmish, they would receive control over the Mississippi River, another source of transportation for the south. The Confederacy would eventually lose this battle due to starvation. During these battles, smaller battles between individuals were also taking place. General Sherman, who produced…

Abigail Schaefer Mr Lucasko Honors Social Studies II August, 27th 2015 Coming of Age in Mississippi Summary and Historical Analysis In Anne Moody’s memoir Coming of Age in Mississippi, Civil Rights plays a large role.Majority of the story takes place in Mississippi during the 1940’s ,with a young girl no older than four or five,named Essie Mae(Later known as Anne Mae). Essie Mae lived on a plantation owned by a man with the name Mr. Carter. She lived with…

Emmett Till was a young African American who was born on July 25 ,1941 . Emmett died on August 28, 1955 ,he was murdered for something that he did not do. This all took place when Till took a trip to Rural Mississippi to spend the summer with great uncle. Him and some friends went to a grocery store and one of Emmett’s friends dared him to talk to one of the stores cashiers, Carolyn Bryant. Carolyn reported that Till had whistled at her and touched her hand, Carolyn’s husband, Roy Bryant, and…

97 km, they declared it a hurricane. In all, Hurricane Camille caused more than 200 deaths and billions of dollars was raised to repair damages. Causes: On August 13, 1969, Hurricane Camille made its first appearance in America, along the Mississippi Gulf near Waveland. It traveled west…

with winds over a hundred twenty-mile winds between Grand Isle, Louisiana and the mouth of the Mississippi River. Katrina went down in United States history as the single most catastrophic natural disaster. The damage caused by Katrina were estimated at $108 billion. The most costly hurricane in U.S. history. Fatalities in Louisiana alone were 1,577 people. There were fatalities in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi had 1,833 fatalities resulting from hurricane Katrina (CNN, 2015).…

“Superman and me” and “One Writer’s Beginnings” are both outstanding essays. They are quite similar to each other although they still have their differences. Alexie Sherman, the author of "Superman and me", is a Native American who took an interest in reading and later became a novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker. With little money to spend, he was raised on a reservation with his two parents. His father, who was an avid reader, still managed to gain enough money to buy books to…

First of all, the location of New Orleans is a very distinctive state in the United States Of America. New Orleans sits on the southeastern side of Louisiana where the Mississippi River 's mouth leads into. North of New Orleans is Lake Pontchartrain. New Orleans used to hold more than 450,000 people, with an additional 1.3 million located in the metropolitan area(Ouellette 22). The region is responsible for twenty five percent of the nation 's oil and gas production(Ouellette 27) . Secondly, the…

Fannie Lou Hamer was born Fannie Lou Townsend in Montgomery County, Mississippi on October 6, 1917. She was born into poverty and grew up in a tar-paper shack with a roof patched up with tin, sleeping on a cotton sack stuffed with dry grass. She was the youngest child of twenty, which included fourteen boys and six girls. Her parents, Lou Ella and Jim Townsend, were sharecroppers. Her family moved to Sunflower County, Mississippi in 1919 from the east of the Mississippi Delta to work on the E.…

Hurricane Betsy was a powerful hurricane of the 1965 Atlantic hurricane season, causing enormous damage in the Bahamas, Florida and Louisiana. While it made its first landfall at Key Largo in Florida, Betsy did its greatest damage after the second landfall on September 9 near the mouth of the Mississippi River, causing significant flooding of the waters of Lake Pontchartrain into New Orleans. Seventy-six people were killed by “Billion-Dollar Betsy” but I survived. Izzy Hannah is my name and I…

First off Corinth is a city in Mississippi was part of the Confederacy. The Confederacy was the 11 southern states that were not apart of the Union from 1860 – 61. The Confederacy would need the railroads for a lot of different things. They needed to ship troops, arms, food, ordnance all around the whole Confederacy. The Union could use the Corinth railroads too. So they came up with a plan to take the crossing point and then take the Confederates benefits of using the railroads. The Union…