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Mississippi
It's nickname is the Magnolia State and the State Captial is Jackson. It entered the union Decemeber 10,1817 (20th). The State Motto is "Virtute et armis" ( By Vitute and arms).
Mississippi ranks as the poorest state in the nation can be traced to the Civil War. Before the Civil War, Mississippi was the fifth-wealthiest state in the nation. The war cost the state 30,000 men. Plantation owners who servived the war were virtuall bankrupted by the emancipation of the slaves.,and Union troops under Sherman and others left widespread destruction in their wake. The increasingly harsh race laws passed around 1900 also cost the state in the emigrationof almost half a million (75% blacks,25% whites) in 1940's. Compounding all this was the fact that until World War II, Mississippi had virtually no Urban center such as Jackson to attract or sustain major industry.
A bit of History
Hernando de Soto's exploration travels through Mississippi in 1540-41. Rene-Robert Cavlier de La Salle claims Mississippi valley for France in 1682. Pierre Le Moyne sieur d'Lberville builds Ft Maurepas on Biloxi Bay in 1699. Natchez (Ft. Rosalie) established in 1716. France cedes territory to Britain in 1763. Mississippi Territory (including present day Alabama) created in 1798. Statehood (Natchez first captial) in 1817. Secedes from the Union; Jerfferson Davis becomes president of the Confederacy in 1861. Seige of Vicksburg in 1863. petroeleum discovered in 1939. Gov. Ross R. Barnett found guilty of contempt in preventing desegregation of University of Mississippi; James H Medredith first black enrolled at University of Mississippi in 1962. Civil rights leader Medgar Evers assassinated in Jackson and buried in Arlington National Cemetery in 1963. White civil rights worker James Cheney,Andrew Goodman, and Micheal Schwerner killed in 1964
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