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Mississippi Posters, Prints, Photographs, Maps & Calendar
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geography > NA > US > S > MISSISSIPPI < social studies
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Mississippi, nicknamed the “Magnolia State”, joined the Union on December 10, 1817 as the 20th state. Mississippi was readmitted to the Union in 1870 after the Confederacy was defeated in the American Civil War.
The word Mississippi means ‘great river’, the state of Mississippi takes its name from the Mississippi River that forms most of the western border. The states of Arkansas and Louisiana are to the west, Tennessee is to the north and Alabama to the east, with the Gulf of Mexico to the south. The Gulf Coast of Mississippi suffered great damage in Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
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The Magnolia is the State Tree and State Flower. The Mockingbird is the State Bird.
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The honey bee is important as a principal pollinator of crops and for producing pleasant-tasting and healthful honey. A social insect, the honey bee lives in highly organized colonies.
The Honey Bee is the Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin State Insect
• food posters
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The Natchez Trace is a historical path that extends about 440 miles from Nashville, Tennessee to Natchez, Mississippi.
The Trace follows the natural geological ridges that provided high, dry ground for prehistoric animals traveling between the salt licks of Tennessee with the grazing ground nearer the Mississippi River. Native Americans took advantage of the trails broken by animals, then it was used by European and American explorers, and expanded for the use of traders and settlers wagons.
The name Natchez is from the tribe of Native Americans who lived in the vicinity of Natchez, MS on the Mississippi River.
FYI - Meriwether Lewis died, probably suicide, while traveling the Natchez Trace in 1809.
• Ohio Valley Poster Map
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Mississippi was important strategically for both the North and South during the United States Civil War.
Mississippi was the second state to secede from the Union, on January 9, 1861, and in February, joined with other ten other southern states to form the Confederate States of America.
The Siege of Vicksburg happened between May 18 – July 4, 1863 with Vicksburg surrendering to U.S. Grant the day after Confederate General Robert E. Lee was defeated at Gettysburg.
• more Civil War posters
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The Mississippi History Now site describes Mississippi as the epicenter of the cotton production during the first half of the 19th century. The world-wide demand by textile manufacturers for cotton, fueled the need for many workers in the production of raw cotton, and supported the institution of slavery.
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