Mississippi History and How It Has Made It Today

Mississippi History and how it has made it today. Mississippi past a big effect on it now. There were many events in Mississippi’s History that are still the same today. Mississippi was known for a lot of disasters. There were wars, the first war was between the Indians and the French, the French won and they took he land from the Indians, the land on the east side of Mississippi was given to the English who later lost it to the United States in 1783 after the Revolutionary War. Than there was The Battle of Vicksburg, marked a very important date in Mississippi state history. It pays tribute to the forces who fought the Confederate Army for 47 straight days. The Vicksburg National Military Park outlines the facts for current visitors with many commemorative monuments. In 1969 Mississippi and Louisiana were devastated by Camille one of the century’s worst Hurricane, in 1973 the Mississippi River rose to record levels in the state, and in 2005 Mississippi and Louisiana suffered widespread devastation, even greater than that from Camille, when Hurricane Katrina struck both states. Hundreds of people were killed. In 1929 and 1939 was the Great Depression, many farmers lost their land this was a major downfall in the history of Mississippi State. That left many in poverty. It pushed Mississippians, predominantly poor and rural to the point of desperation, and the state’s agricultural economy to the brink of disaster. In 1932, cotton sank to five cent a pound, and one- forth of the state’s farmland was forfeited for nonpayment of taxes. World War II unleashed the forces that would later revolutionize Mississippi’s economic, social and political order, bringing the state its first prosperity in the century. Many farmers were repl...

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... technological development in such fields as medicine and space exploration. The world’s first heart and lung transplants were performed at the University of Mississippi medical center, and the powerful main engines of the space shuttles are tested at the John C. Stennis space center on the Mississippi Golf Coast. After all the issues and problems Mississippi has gone through, the state has build it self up in the years. Mississippi has made billions in Exporting. Mississippi still remains one of the more rural states in the Union. The state has the nation’s lowest living cost. It has the lowest per capita personal in come of any state. Mississippi still has some racial issues today, and African American are still a big part of the population.

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