Name 8 important events in Mississippi?

Answer 1

# Organized as a Territory on 7 April 1798. # Statehood on 10 December 1817. # Secession from the Union on 9 January 1861. # The Confederate Victory at Chickasaw Bayou in 1862. # The Confederate Victory at Grand Gulf in 1863. # The siege at Vicksburg. # The routing of the Union Army (Battle of Brices Crossroads in 1864). # Reconstruction. # Return to Statehood on 23 February 1870. # The Great Migrations of 1913 and 1940. # The Civil Rights Movement. # The 1964 underground detonation of a nuclear device. # The 1966 repeal of prohibition. # Hurricane Camille in 1969. # Legalized Gambling in 1990 and the new birth in tourism. # Hurricane Katrina in 2005.