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    The Territory of Mississippi was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that was created under an organic act passed by both upper and...
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    The governor of Mississippi is the head of government of Mississippi and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The governor has a duty...
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    Republicans and 1 Democrat. On April 7, 1798, the Mississippi Territory was created. Starting in 1801, the Territory sent one non-voting delegate to the U.S. House...
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    include the Chickasaw and Choctaw. Other tribes who inhabited the territory of Mississippi (and whose names were honored by colonists in local towns) include...
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    Mississippi Territory "EPA County FIPS Code Listing". EPA.gov. Retrieved February 23, 2008. Bureau of the Census, USA. "GeoHive - USA, Mississippi state...
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    of the United States. The Alabama Territory was carved from the Mississippi Territory on August 15, 1817 and lasted until December 14, 1819, when it was...
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    Nittakechi's District (Mississippi/Alabama) Platte Purchase; $7,500; purchased 1836; Missouri Saginaw Cession; ceded 1819; Michigan Territory (eventually Michigan)...
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    Upon its creation in 1798, the Mississippi Territory was given a government which included a governor. Mississippi was given statehood in 1817. Its...
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    of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. This consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River's...
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    junction of the Mississippi River and the Yazoo River and now the location of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to give the West Floridians more territory, including...
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    Tribes of the Southeast. Other tribes who inhabited the territory that became known as Mississippi (and whose names were given by colonists to local towns...
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    Thomas Jefferson. One of the first of two counties organized in the Mississippi Territory in 1798 along with Adams County, it was first named Pickering County...
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    town of Cotton Gin Port, Mississippi. Afterwards, he took a leave of absence from the army to practice law in Mississippi Territory. While practicing law...
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  • The trans-Mississippi theater of the American Civil War was the scene of the major military operations west of the Mississippi River. The area is often...
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    the lower Mississippi River Valley. After the French lost the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War), they ceded Natchez and near territory to Great...
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    Democratic-Republican Party, he previously served as the third governor of Mississippi Territory from 1805 to 1809 under President Thomas Jefferson and represented...
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    slavery in Mississippi began when the region was still Mississippi Territory and continued until abolition in 1865. The U.S. state of Mississippi had one...
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  • were territories or parts of territories before reaching statehood, e.g. Louisiana Territory, Mississippi Territory, Oregon Territory, Alaska Territory and...
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    of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2020, its population was 8,587. Its county seat is Woodville. Bordered by the Mississippi River on the west, the...
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    not have information about Mississippi or Orleans Territory. Mississippi used popular election in 1808, while Orleans Territory elected its delegate by the...
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  • of the original counties of Mississippi Territory in the United States. Together with Adams County, Mississippi Territory, Pickering County was a first-level...
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    William C. C. Claiborne (category Governors of Mississippi Territory)
    appointed governor and superintendent of Indian affairs in the Mississippi Territory, from 1801 to 1803. Although he favored acquiring some land from...
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    Territories of later Mississippi Territory (1798-1817), and adjacent Alabama Territory), and east of the Mississippi River and north of the southern coast...
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    David Holmes (politician) (category Governors of Mississippi Territory)
    last governor of the Mississippi Territory. In 1817, he was unanimously elected as the first governor of the state of Mississippi. He served a term as...
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    county is named after William Claiborne, the second governor of the Mississippi Territory. Claiborne County is included in the Vicksburg, MS Micropolitan...
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    Ridgeland is a city in Madison County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 24,340 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Jackson metropolitan...
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    Natchez. The county is the first to have been organized in the former Mississippi Territory. It is named for the second President of the United States, John...
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    George Strother Gaines (category People from Mississippi Territory)
    Mississippi Territory (today's Alabama and Mississippi). He began as the US Indian agent to the Choctaw, explored the country west of the Mississippi...
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    of Mississippi is a post created in 1817 when the state was admitted to the Union. Before the state was formed by splitting the Alabama Territory from...
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    was the second and longest-serving capital of the Mississippi Territory. This area along the Mississippi had long been inhabited by indigenous peoples. At...
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