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:'''Mississippi''' :'''Mississippi''' <ref> Both representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.</

...h the fur trade and French imperial claims as far as the headwaters of the Mississippi. Their success encouraged the charter companies to concentrate on the fur ...y and authorized many western forts and La Salle's grand expedition in the Mississippi River Valley. His failure to follow orders led, in part, to Frontenac's re

* Lane, Kerry L. (2004). ''Guadacanal Marine''. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 1578066646. See especially Chapter 2, Preparing for Combat.

...t (2005) at New York's famed Madison Square Garden, along with the [[North Mississippi All Stars]] and former [[Phish]] frontman [[Trey Anastasio]]. Anastasio wa

Dolly Sods is the highest [[plateau]] of its type east of the [[Mississippi River]] with altitude ranging from around 4,000 foot (1,200 meter) at the ...y Fork, Black Fork, Cheat, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the Mississippi River drainage watershed. Drainage on the east side of the ridge crest flow

* Looking for mercury or arsenic in wild animals that inhabit the Mississippi river area

...n and first represented as a state in this Congress. [[South Carolina]], [[Mississippi]], [[Alabama]], [[Florida]], [[Louisiana]], [[Georgia]], and [[Texas]] decl :'''Mississippi'''

...of the United States (1869-1877) won fame for his capture of [[Vicksburg, Mississippi]] (1863) and defeat of [[Robert E. Lee]] (1865), thereby winning the [[Amer *Ballard, Michael B., ''Vicksburg, The Campaign that Opened the Mississippi'', (2004), ISBN 0-8078-2893-9.

...Senate from New York), Angela McGlowan of Fox (candidate for Congress from Mississippi) and Lou Dobbs of CNN, rumored to be considering a presidential bid.

* Sydnor, Charles S. ''Slavery in Mississippi''. (1933)

...ing by rewriting and rearranging lyrical parts with the focus on the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, and the band combining to create a new original melody. Reco

...' was a ''Tolland'' class [[attack cargo ship]] named after [[Tate County, Mississippi]]. ''Tate'' was designed to carry military cargo and [[landing craft]], and

===Mississippi=== ...South, such as the murder of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi. On July 2, President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

...has broken out in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas...Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of th ...yal, South Carolina; Fernandina, Florida; and Ship Island off the coast of Mississippi. The fear of a seaborne force was a powerful threat to the Confederacy.

* "Local Defense and the Downfall of the Confederacy," ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'' 11 (Mar. 1925): 492-525, [http://links.jstor.org

* Sears, Louis Martin. "Nicholas P. Trist, A Diplomat with Ideals," ''The Mississippi Valley Historical Review'' Vol. 11, No. 1 (Jun., 1924), pp. 85-98 [http://l

=== Mississippi===

...gon" (published 1895), and the first instrumental rag was William Krell's "Mississippi Rag" (published in January 1897). The first African American ragtime song p

The act is named after [[Robert J. Walker]], a Mississippi politician who served as Secretary of the Treasury under president [[James

[[Steven Palazzo]], a [[member of Congress]] from [[Pascagoula, Mississippi]], gave a speech when the ''Benjamin B. Dailey'' was commissioned in Pascag

| [[Robert J. Walker]]<br>Mississippi ||

...uary 9, 1861),<ref>The text of [http://gen.1starnet.com/civilwar/msord.htm Mississippi's Ordinance of Secession].</ref> ...ates of South Carolina[http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/scarsec.htm], Mississippi[http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/missec.htm], Georgia[http://www.yale.

...warfare on the western rivers that split the Confederacy along the vital Mississippi River line; and to maintain a blockade of more than 3,000 miles of Confede ...Vicksburg|Vicksburg, Mississippi]], the main Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River. After a prolonged siege by water and land, Vicksburg fell to General

...or the [[Gulf of Mexico]]. After visiting [[Mobile, Alabama]]; [[Gulfport, Mississippi]]; and [[Jacksonville]], Fla., she arrived at [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. On

* Sellers, Charles. "Andrew Jackson Versus the Historians." ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'' 49 (1958): 615-34.

** Region 4 (Atlanta) Serving Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and 6 Tribes

** Region 4 (Atlanta) Serving Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and 6 Tribes

.... Davidson was born in the black community in Ohio, spent time teaching in Mississippi and Tennessee and received her education at Hampton Institute and the Massa ...ird marriage took place in 1893 to [[Margaret James Murray]]. She was from Mississippi and was a graduate of [[Fisk University]]. They had no children together. M

...spelling of Presley's stillborn brother Jesse Garon. However, the State of Mississippi spelled it as "Aaron" on Presley's birth certificate, which was revealed to ...y knit family. On May 25, 1938 Vernon was sentenced for three years in the Mississippi State Penitentiary for check [[forgery]]. During the brief time Vernon spen

...t Mississippi'' (1994) [http://www.amazon.com/Poor-Whites-Antebellum-South-Mississippi/dp/0822314681/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200630882&sr=8-3 excerpt and

* Kerby, Robert L. ''Kirby Smith's Confederacy: The Trans-Mississippi South, 1863–1865'' (1972). * Clampitt, Brad R. "The Breakup: the Collapse of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Army in Texas, 1865" ''Southwestern Historical Quarterly'' 2005 108(4): 498

...[[South Carolina (U.S. state)|South Carolina]], [[Mississippi (U.S. state)|Mississippi]], [[Florida (U.S. state)|Florida]], [[Alabama (U.S. state)]], [[Georgia]], :'''Mississippi'''

.... "American Entry into World War II: A Historiographical Appraisal," ''The Mississippi Valley Historical Review,'' Vol. 43, No. 4. (Mar., 1957), pp. 595-617. [htt

He was president of the [[Mississippi Valley Historical Association]] (now the [[Organization of American Histori

...Irving]] (''History of New York'', 1809) and [[Mark Twain]] (''Life on the Mississippi'', 1883).<ref>''Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature'', Springfie

* Blodgett, Geoffrey T. "The Mind of the Boston Mugwump," ''The Mississippi Valley Historical Review,'' Vol. 48, No. 4. (Mar., 1962), pp. 614-634. [htt

He was president of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association (now the Organization of American Historians)

:'''Mississippi''' :'''Mississippi'''

...ippi for years and has caused a dead spot in the Gulf of Mexico, where the Mississippi empties. Bad intensive agriculture practices can also deplete the fertility

<blockquote>...when ''Mississippi'' discharged her twelve 14-inch guns at ''Yamashiro'', at 0408 October 25,

...As President in 1865, Johnson wrote to the man he appointed as governor of Mississippi, recommending, "If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons o ...trees. In Alabama nearly all of its 800 miles of railway was useless. One Mississippi line reported fit for use, though damaged, a total of one locomotive, two s

...Mountains into the Ohio River just upstream of the Ohio's discharge to the Mississippi River. ...vegetation of the area was deciduous forest. At some distance west of the Mississippi River, the forest gives way to open [[prairie]], a region known as the [[Gr

...Campbell, Jr., "The Anglo-American Crisis in the Bering Sea, 1890-1891." ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'' 1961 48(3): 393-414. Issn: 0161-391x Fulltext: i

.... "American Entry into World War II: A Historiographical Appraisal," ''The Mississippi Valley Historical Review,'' Vol. 43, No. 4. (Mar., 1957), pp. 595-617. [htt

...ond the highest Ports of Entry for Foreign Vessels from the Sea. The River Mississippi, shall however, according to the Treaty of Peace be entirely open to both P Whereas it is uncertain whether the River Mississippi extends so far to the Northward as to be intersected by a Line to be drawn

:'''Mississippi''' <ref> All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.</

:'''Mississippi''' :'''Mississippi'''

...search center based in a state library agency and the only one west of the Mississippi River.

...s in [[Winston County, Alabama|Alabama]] and [[Winston County, Mississippi|Mississippi]]. She served as a commissioned ship for 19 years and 11 months, earning se

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...nfederate forces. In October, 1862, a Union naval patrol on the southern Mississippi River captured 1,500 head of Texas longhorns, which had been destined for C

...ans Rarely Write History: A Case Study of Frederick Jackson Turner," ''The Mississippi Valley Historical Review,'' Vol. 50, No. 1. (Jun., 1963), pp. 3-27. [http:/

...[[Mark Twain]] considered his influence pernicious.<ref>e g ''Life on the Mississippi'', ch XL</ref>

...rnst (1954). "Northern Methodisism in the South during Reconstruction". ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'' 41(2) pp 197-218. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/189

...0.<ref> See Chauncey S. Boucher, "In Re That Aggressive Slavocracy," ''The Mississippi Valley Historical Review'' Vol. 8, No. 1/2 (Jun., 1921), pp. 13-79; Craven

...reportedly visited the disgraced sports star at the Gentle Path clinic in Mississippi - and Nordegren has now dropped her divorce suit.

...pg/credit}}<br/>|}}Nighttime view of Chevron Oil's refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi.]]

...tern boundaries of those states which claimed territory as far west as the Mississippi River. This last issue held up final approval until 1781, when the delegate ...Georgia, which claimed the lands between their western boundaries and the Mississippi. The ownership of such vast areas by a few states aroused jealousy and ill-

...gues were also the frequent targets of Klan raids. In a typical episode in Mississippi, according to the Congressional inquiry <ref>James Ford Rhodes, ''History o ...for federal troops, and by reports of a riot and massacre in a [[Meridian, Mississippi]] courthouse, which a black state representative escaped only by taking to

...egate schools. There were however five Southern states (Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Virginia) that adopted resolutions that said the Supre

:'''Mississippi''' ====Mississippi====

...on E. "The Origins and Purpose of Lincoln's "House-Divided" Speech," ''The Mississippi Valley Historical Review,'' Vol. 46, No. 4. (Mar., 1960), pp. 615-643. [htt

...rdinated Confederate armies and capturing [[Battle of Vicksburg|Vicksburg, Mississippi]] in July 1863, thus splitting the Confederacy. ...[[South Carolina (U.S. state)|South Carolina]], [[Mississippi (U.S. state)|Mississippi]], [[Florida (U.S. state)|Florida]], [[Alabama (U.S. state)]], [[Georgia (U

...ry.jpg|right|300px|Nighttime view of Chevron Oil's refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi.}}

...in the momentous Brown v. the Board of Education ruling. Evers then became Mississippi's first NAACP field organizer. When a young, black boy from Chicago named Emmet Till was murdered in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman and local officials tried to cover up the cr

...alliance shaping up, became more favorable regarding American usage of the Mississippi River and negotiated [[Pinckney's Treaty]] reopened trade at New Orleans.

...pted the solution (as did all the states except [[Mississippi (U.S. state)|Mississippi]] and [[Alabama (U.S. state)]]), but the MFDP, coming under control of Blac ...white voters to Goldwater in the Deep South states of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and South Carolina, where most blacks were still not allowed to vo

...nd Louis Jolliet, landed at the site of Memphis while on a voyage down the Mississippi River. In 1682, another French expedition, under Robert Cavelier, sieur de

* Sydnor, Charles S. ''Slavery in Mississippi''. 1933

...ly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi.'' U. Press of Mississippi, 1990. 309 pp.

...a Minor Basilica. This was the first designation of a basilica west of the Mississippi and the fifth basilica named in the United States. Today, the larger, newe

...pported the development of deep waterways linking the Great Lakes with the Mississippi, and the Great Lakes states, which feared sinking water levels might harm s Chicago's locational advantage is the link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River system. Its first permanent resident, [[Jean Baptiste Point du Sable]

...h ice to create the evidence of super flooding seen in the St Lawrence and Mississippi water ways and created the fresh water spike seen in the sediments on the f

| [[Pascagoula, Mississippi]] | Pascagoula, Mississippi

...h ice to create the evidence of super flooding seen in the St Lawrence and Mississippi water ways and created the fresh water spike seen in the sediments on the f

...f>Raymond A. Esthus, "The Changing Concept of the Open Door, 1899-1910." ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'' 1959-1960 46(3): 435-454. </ref> Under Woodrow

...merican Revolutionary War]]; U.S. boundaries confirmed as Canada on North, Mississippi River on west, Florida on south. * 1789 - [[Jay-Gardoqui Treaty]] gave Spain exclusive right to navigate Mississippi River for 30 years. Not ratified because of western opposition.

...itution|Fourteenth Amendment]] did not prohibit [[Mississippi (U.S. state)|Mississippi]]'s prevention of [[Asian]] children attending [[white (people)|white]] sch

...threw in his reserves and with the invaluable aid of [[Jefferson Davis]]'s Mississippi Rifles regiment, checked the retreat. Artillery batteries of [[Braxton Brag ...from western states, especially Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Of the 63 volunteer colonels on active duty in 1846, 14 belonged to the [[

...ate Command: Edmund Kirby Smith, Richard Taylor, and the Army of the Trans-Mississippi.'' LSU Press, 2005. 308 pp. ...he Mississippi'', (2004). [http://www.amazon.com/Vicksburg-Campaign-Opened-Mississippi-America/dp/0807828939/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213543938&sr=1-1 ex

*Region IV (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, N. Carolina, S. Carolina and Tennessee)

...where river deltas fall off the edge of the continental shelf such as the Mississippi alluvial fan in the [[gulf of Mexico]] and the Nile alluvial fan in the [[M ...ace near the Cranfield oil field about 15 miles (25 km) east of [[Natchez, Mississippi]]. Experimental equipment will measure the ability of the subsurface to acc

...achian Mountains]] on the east, south to the [[Ohio River]], west to the [[Mississippi River]] and north to the southern boundary of [[Rupert's Land]], the commer

...rk. ''Immigrants in the Valley: Irish, Germans and Americans in the Upper Mississippi Country, 1830-1860.'' (1984). 258 pp.

...gston, the U.S. minister, negotiate for the purchase of the mouth of the [[Mississippi River]]. They instead purchased the entire [[Louisiana Purchase|Louisiana

...[John Quincy Adams]]' readiness to give the British free navigation of the Mississippi River in exchange for the right of New Englanders to fish in Canadian water

...er, Burkhart) descent. He was the first President to be born west of the [[Mississippi River]]. Both of his parents died when Hoover was young. His father, Jesse ...the [[Great Mississippi Flood of 1927]], governors of six states along the Mississippi demanded that the federal government send them Herbert Hoover in the emerge

...employed on improvements of the harbor of St. Louis and the channel of the Mississippi River. When the [[Mexican War]] broke out he was ordered to the Mexican bor

...um to the value of all the property in the twenty-two states west of the [[Mississippi River]].<ref>Brandeis (1995), ch. 2 </ref>

...was a ''Tolland'' class [[attack cargo ship]] named after [[Rankin County, Mississippi]]. Like all AKAs, ''Rankin'' was designed to transport military cargo and [

...ampaigns include the Styx tune 'Mr. Roboto' for Volkswagen and Mountain's 'Mississippi Queen' for Budweiser.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.isnare.com/?aid=8320

...> Akinyele O. Umoja, "1964: The Beginning of the End of Nonviolence in the Mississippi Freedom Movement," ''Radical History Review'', Jan 2003; 2003: 201 - 226. o

...holic missionaries]] explored the [[Great Lakes]], [[Hudson Bay]] and the Mississippi watershed to [[Louisiana (New France)|Louisiana]]. The [[French and Iroquoi

Oklahoma is part of the [[Mississippi River]] [[drainage basin]], with its primary rivers being the [[Arkansas Ri

...me there were repeated calls for the Seminoles to be sent to west of the [[Mississippi River]]. The Seminoles were opposed to any such move, and especially to the ...roblems with the Seminoles were to be solved by moving them to west of the Mississippi.<ref>Missall. Pp. 78-80.</ref>

...vote nationwide, and 30-50% in the deep South, notably as South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. However Clinton's husband [[Bill Clinton]] has long b ...for the first presidential debate with Senator McCain at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS, on Friday, September 26, 2008.}}

...l in the Educational Initiatives of Formerly Enslaved African Americans in Mississippi, 1862-1869," ''The Journal of African American History'', 2002 pp 196-222

...U.S. states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, as well as US waters around Puerto Rico and the US V

* Bold, Christine. ''The WPA Guides: Mapping America.'' U. Press of Mississippi, 1999. 246 pp.

...he options. States with strong pro-secession movements such as Alabama and Mississippi sent delegates to the convention where they advised the Carolinians to "tak Using as a model the "Mississippi plan", which had redeemed that state in 1874, South Carolina Redeemers empl

...ted on the grounds of the John C. Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Construction of their facility began in August 2006 and the scheduled com

...along the St. Lawrence River. The area around New Orleans and west of the Mississippi passed to Spain, which ceded it to France in 1803, allowing France to sell

...America|U.S. President]] [[James K. Polk]]. Cholera spread throughout the Mississippi river system killing over 4,500 in St. Louis [http://www.stlgs.org/DBpublic

...the possibility of war. The centers of this new demand for war were in the Mississippi Valley and in the South Atlantic states. Historians disagree on the causes

...ar]], and, combined with the simultaneous loss of [[Vicksburg campaign|the Mississippi River]] in the west, foreshadowed Confederate exhaustion and ultimate defea

...enator as his running mate, but control of the convention came down to the Mississippi delegation, which swung the nomination to Ford. After Ford was defeated in

...Milwaukee), on the Ohio River (Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville), or the Mississippi (St. Louis and all cities north to St. Paul). There were a few inland citie

| Command Module on display at [[Stennis Space Center]], [[Bay St. Louis, Mississippi]]

...ourth+dimension%22+1964+ladies&pg=PT312|year=2004|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-60473-051-7|page=312}}</ref>

...bought 920 acres (370 ha) of land, a cotton plantation near [[Coffeeville, Mississippi]]. He ran this plantation for the rest of his life, eventually taking it ov

...y Byrd]] of Virginia for President, as did 5 unpledged electors elected in Mississippi.<ref>Gaines (2001)</ref>

* [[Mississippi River]]

...lliant civil engineer James Eads (1820-87), whose "Eads Bridge" across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri, symbolized the interrelationship of steel, ra

...lliant civil engineer James Eads (1820-87), whose "Eads Bridge" across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri, symbolized the interrelationship of steel, ra

...approval. Finally, the boundaries of Quebec were extended to the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. British concessions strengthened conservative Canadians and made t

...ty originally included Weakly county and all counties due west over to the Mississippi river, but was soon broken off into the current district.

Maine is the most sparsely populated state east of the [[Mississippi River]]. It is called the Pine Tree State; ninety percent of its land is fo

# The [[Great Mississippi Flood of 1927]] and its aftermath displaced hundreds of thousands of Africa

...successful Chinese-American effort to become accepted as White in Jim Crow Mississippi.

...te whose supporters controlled the Democratic party in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina.<ref> Thurmond received only 15% of the vote in the oth

...[New Orleans, Louisiana]] and the Gulf Coast of [[Mississippi (U.S. state)|Mississippi]] and [[Louisiana (U.S. state)|Louisiana]]. The Bush Administration's respo

...re victims of the relentless Japanese aerial attacks, the battleship [[USS Mississippi (BB-41)]] and the Australian heavy cruiser HMAS ''Australia'', both crashed

...steel for and owned shares in the landmark Eads Bridge project across the Mississippi River in St. Louis (completed 1874). This project was an important proof-of

...ref>Sheman, Janann. ''Interviews with Betty Friedan''. University Press of Mississippi, 2002.</ref>

...se and Consent: John Stennis and the Vietnam War, 1954-1973." ''Journal of Mississippi History'' 1993 55(2): 87-114. Issn: 0022-2771 </ref>

...ohn_Laws_Banque_Royale.pdf John Sandrock: ''John Law's Bank Royale and the Mississippi Bubble'', The Currency Collector]</ref>.

...ouped. They established a new headquarters in a town on the banks of the [[Mississippi River]], called [[Commerce, Illinois|Commerce]], in [[Hancock County, Illin

...kee's success, he pushed for building a canal linking Lake Michigan to the Mississippi. After that failed, he turned to railroads and soon had the state's first t ...r life proved true for thousands of hopeful families.<ref>Paul Geib, "From Mississippi to Milwaukee: a Case Study of the Southern Black Migration to Milwaukee, 19

...n -- stretching then from Maine to Georgia, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi Valley -- was a unified, or common market. There were to be no internal tar

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...ohn M. Palmer]] of Illinois, [[Horace Boies]] of Iowa, [[L.Q.C. Lamar]] of Mississippi, and railroad builder [[James J. Hill]] of Minnesota. A prominent intellect

...f ''ad hoc'', and the Amazon seems to be a hard one. Seine, River Thames, Mississippi River... I suspect that if only as a result of having already thrashed it o ...hoc situation. All my life I have heard and read "the River Nile" and "the Mississippi River." I have never, to my recollection, run across "the River Amazon". He

...vote nationwide, and 30-50% in the deep South, notably as South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. However Clinton's husband [[Bill Clinton]] has long b

[[Image:Teddybear_cartoon.jpg|thumb|right|"Drawing the Line in Mississippi," by Clifford Berryman, referring to Roosevelt's sparing the bear]]

...Spanish, operating from New Orleans, cleared the redcoats out of the lower Mississippi Valley, seizing Mobile on the Gulf Coast, Pensacola (in British West Florid

...f over 200 feet, the structure was once the tallest building west of the [[Mississippi River]].<ref>Newcomb, p. 16</ref> No contemporary drawing or painting of th

*Bennie Thompson (Democratic Party (United States)|D-Mississippi)