MISSISSIPPI
\mˌɪsɪsˈɪpi], \mˌɪsɪsˈɪpi], \m_ˌɪ_s_ɪ_s_ˈɪ_p_i]\
Definitions of MISSISSIPPI
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a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War
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a major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico
By Princeton University
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a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War
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a major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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was admitted as a State December 10, 1817. It was explored by De Soto, a Spaniard, in 1539, and by the Frenchmen, Joliet and Marquette, who came down the Mississippi in 1673. In 1682 La Salle took formal possession of the territory for the King of France. Biloxi was settled by the French under Iberville in 1699. After the Louisiana bubble the colonies in Mississippi grew slowly. The French ceded the territory to England in 1763, and it was included within the State of Georgia until 1798, when it was organized as a territory by the U.S. Government under provisions like those of the Ordinance of 1787, with the exception of the article relative to slavery. The State has cast its electoral votes for Democratic candidates except in the years 1840, 1848 and 1872. In 1842 the State repudiated its bonds to the amount of $5,000,000. In 1850 Jefferson Davis and Henry S. Foote were candidates for U.S. Senator, and canvassed the State on the issue of the advisability of secession. Davis, the leader of the pronounced Secessionists, was beaten by a small majority. An ordinance of secession was passed by a State Convention January 7, 1861, but was not submitted to a popular vote. The State furnished the President, Jefferson Davis, of the Confederacy. Mississippi was readmitted February 23, 1870. In 1875 the white Democracy resorted to intimidation to keep the blacks from the polls, and succeeded in securing possession of the State, which has been Democratic since that date. The population of the State in 1817 was 75,512; in 1890 it had increased to 1,289,600. The present Constitution was made in 1891.
By John Franklin Jameson
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