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1820 Mississippi elections (4 P) This page was last edited on 27 January 2019, at 04:24 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The 1820 United States census was the fourth census conducted in the United States. It was conducted on August 7, 1820. The 1820 census included six new states: Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama and Maine. There has been a district wide loss of 1820 census records for Arkansas Territory, Missouri Territory, [1] and New Jersey.
Mississippi's Constitution of 1868, drafted by a biracial convention [citation needed], was the first legislation to provide for free public education for all children in the state. The constitution established a “uniform system of free public schools, by taxation or otherwise, for all children between the ages of five and twenty-one years ...
1820 in Mississippi (2 C) 1821 in Mississippi (2 C, 1 P) ... Pages in category "1820s in Mississippi" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
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Free schooling was available through some of the elementary grades. Graduates of these schools could read and write, though not always with great precision. Mary Chesnut, a Southern diarist, mocks the North's system of free education in her journal entry of June 3, 1862, where she derides misspelled words from the captured letters of Union ...
During the American Civil War (1861-1865), Jefferson College was closed. When the war ended, the buildings were used during the Reconstruction era (1865-1877) by the Freedmen's Bureau newly set up within the United States Department of War in the US government to aid in the transition of the former slaves to a society of free labor.
The 1820 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place between 1 November and 6 December 1820, as part of the 1820 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College , who voted for President and Vice President .