Transcript Jeopardy - PRC4thGrade

Jeopardy
Mississippi
Territory
Mississippi
Statehood
Mississippi
Industry
Civil War in
Mississippi
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Mississippi
State Facts
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Final Jeopardy
$100 Question from
Mississippi State Facts
What is the capital city of Mississippi?
$100 Answer from
Mississippi State Facts
Jackson?
$200 Question from
Mississippi State Facts
What is the state flower and tree of Mississippi?
$200 Answer from
Mississippi State Facts
Magnolia Tree
Magnolia Flower
$300 Question from
Mississippi State Facts
What is the land mammal of Mississippi?
$300 Answer from
Mississippi State Facts
White-tailed Deer
$400 Question from
Mississippi State Facts
What is the state fish of Mississippi?
$400 Answer from
Mississippi State Facts
Largemouth Bass
$500 Question from
Mississippi State Facts
When did Mississippi gain their statehood?
$500 Answer from
Mississippi State Facts
December 10, 1817
$100 Question from
Mississippi Territory
In 1803 the United States
bought the land west of the
Mississippi River from which
country?
$100 Answer from
Mississippi Territory
France
$200 Question from
Mississippi Territory
This event doubled the size of
our country and gave
Americans control of the
Mississippi River
$200 Answer from
Mississippi Territory
Louisiana Purchase
$300 Question from
Mississippi Territory
The Natchez Trace was a
frontier road between
Natchez and which city and
state?
$300 Answer from
Mississippi Territory
Nashville, Tennessee
$400 Question from
Mississippi Territory
The first Steamboat to dock in
Mississippi was called what?
$400 Answer from
Mississippi Territory
New Orleans
$500 Question from
Mississippi Territory
Many Mississippians died
from Malaria and Yellow
Fever which are diseases
carried by what insect?
$500 Answer from
Mississippi Territory
Mosquito
$100 Question from
Mississippi Statehood
In order to become a state,
a territory had to have a
population of how many
people?
$100 Answer from
Mississippi Statehood
60,000
$200 Question from
Mississippi Statehood
Where was the first
capital of Mississippi
located?
$200 Answer from
Mississippi Statehood
Natchez
$300 Question from
Mississippi Statehood
The capital Natchez was
renamed this to honor
General Andrew Jackson
$300 Answer from
Mississippi Statehood
Jackson
$400 Question from
Mississippi Statehood
David Holmes was
selected to be
Mississippi’s first state
governor. Who is our
current governor?
$400 Answer from
Mississippi Statehood
Haley Barbour
$500 Question from
Mississippi Statehood
Mississippi became what
number state to join the
United States of America
in 1817?
$500 Answer from
Mississippi Statehood
Twentieth
$100 Question from
Mississippi Industry
In the 1800’s there was
a popular saying,
“Cotton is ______.”
$100 Answer from
Mississippi Industry
King
“Cotton is King”
$200 Question from
Mississippi Industry
What was the most
famous cash crop is
Mississippi?
$200 Answer from
Mississippi Industry
Cotton
$300 Question from
Mississippi Industry
Slaves had to work
from “Can to Can’t.”
What does this mean?
$300 Answer from
Mississippi Industry
It meant that the slaves
had to work from
“Can see daylight” to
“Can’t see daylight.”
$400 Question from
Mississippi Industry
On January 1861,
Mississippi seceded from
the Union.
What does secede mean?
$400 Answer from
Mississippi Industry
Secede means to withdraw.
Mississippi became known as
the Confederate States of
America.
$500 Question from
Mississippi Industry
The Civil War, or war
between states, lasted
how many years?
$500 Answer from
Mississippi Industry
4 years
$100 Question from
Civil War in Mississippi
The battle of Shiloh happened
when Confederate soldiers were
trying to protect what in
Corinth, Mississippi?
$100 Answer from
Civil War in Mississippi
The important railroad station.
$200 Question from
Civil War in Mississippi
By the summer of 1862, the
______ Army controlled all of
the Mississippi River except for
four miles near Vicksburg.
$200 Answer from
Civil War in Mississippi
Union
$300 Question from
Civil War in Mississippi
Mississippians had to make do
with what they had during the
Civil War. They would make
coffee out of burned _____
and _____ leaves.
$300 Answer from
Civil War in Mississippi
Burned corn and raspberry leaves
$400 Question from
Civil War in Mississippi
In September 1862 President Lincoln
announced the _______ _______
which meant that all of the enslaved
people in the Confederate states
would be “forever free.”
$400 Answer from
Civil War in Mississippi
Emancipation Proclamation
$500 Question from
Civil War in Mississippi
Four years after the start of the Civil
War, General _______ ___ _______
surrendered to General Grant at
Appomattox, Virginia.
$500 Answer from
Civil War in Mississippi
Robert E. Lee
Final Jeopardy
_________ was the period of time
when the southern states were
brought back to the Union.
Final Jeopardy Answer
What is Reconstruction?