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On December 10, 1817, that western portion of the Mississippi Territory became the State of Mississippi, the 20th state of the federal Union, in an organic act passed by both upper and lower legislative chambers (the Senate and the House of Representatives) of the Congress of the United States meeting at the United States Capitol on Capitol ...
1948 postage stamp depicting the Mississippi Territory. 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 lower chambers (the Senate and House of Representatives) of the Congress of the United States, meeting at the United States Capitol on Capitol Hill, in the federal national capital city ...
The location of the state of Mississippi in the United States of America. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of Mississippi: Mississippi – U.S. state located in the Southern United States, named after the Mississippi River which flows along its western boundary.
State name Date first attested in original language Language of origin Word(s) in original language Meaning and notes Alabama: April 19, 1692: Choctaw/Alabama: alba amo/Albaamaha 'Thicket-clearers' [3] or 'plant-cutters', from alba, '(medicinal) plants', and amo, 'to clear'. The modern Choctaw name for the tribe is Albaamu. [4] Alaska: December ...
The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
Choctaw people venerated this site and nearby Nanih Waiya Cave as their place of origin and the home of their ancestors. For years, the state protected the site as a Mississippi state park. It returned Nanih Waiya to the Choctaw in 2006 under Mississippi Legislature State Bill 2803. [57] The deed was signed on August 18, 2008.
The tusk, which could be anywhere from 11,700 to 75,000 years old, was found partially exposed from the mud bank. - Courtesy Eddie Templeton
Mississippi Territory was admitted as the twentieth state, Mississippi. [97] [134] February 6, 1818 Alabama Territory created Tuskaloosa County with a description that inadvertently overlapped with Mississippi. It described the border of the county as running "a due west course to, the Tombeckbe river; thence up the same to the Cotton Gin Port ...