MISSISSIPPI 



RESEARCH QUESTIONS ON MISSISSIPPI 



(An Outline suitable for Mississippi will be found with the article "State.") 



How can you tell whether Mississippi was named for the great river or the river 

 was named for the state? 



How many states have a greater area than Mississippi? How many have a 

 greater population? What state is nearest it in size? 



How many states were admitted to the Union after the close of the Revolutionary 

 War and before Mississippi became a state? 



How does Mississippi compare with Minnesota as regards proportion of foreign- 

 born citizens? With Massachusetts? 



Do more of the people live in cities or in rural districts? How many people 

 out of each hundred live in a town of more than 2,500 inhabitants? Does this 

 percentage seem to be increasing or decreasing? 



What has made the educational problem a difficult one to solve in this state? 



Do all voters help pay the tax levied for school purposes, or only those who 

 have children? How is the tax levied? 



Show by statistics that illiteracy in the state is noticeably decreasing. 



What is the Yazoo delta? How is it protected from the overflow of the Missis- 

 sippi? What is its area? 



Into what body of water does all the drainage of the state find its way? By 

 what different routes does it reach its goal? 



Why is it not so hot- in this Southern state as one might expect? How many 

 "growing months" has the northern part of the state? 



How large a part of the surface is covered with forests? Is this a larger or a 

 smaller proportion than Florida has? Than Arkansas? 



Why would this state be an excellent field for the botanist who was especially 

 interested in trees? 



What is. meant by alluvium? What has it done for Mississippi? 



How large a proportion of the area of the state is in farm land? 



Where is the great cotton-producing section of the state? .How many states 

 produce more cotton? How many have a larger area devoted to it? 



Why has the development of the manufacturing industries been comparatively 

 slow in this state? 



Upon what natural resource is the chief industrial enterprise dependent? 



What product that is of very considerable value is made from materials that was 

 formerly regarded as waste? 



How many constitutions has the state had? How long has it been governed 

 under the present one? 



How has the number of negro votes been decidedly reduced? 



What stand has Mississippi taken on the prohibition question? 



Why is it less expensive to eat at a hotel or restaurant in Mississippi than in 

 most other states? 



What important cities were named for the early Indian tribes? What river took 

 its name from an Indian tribe? 



To how many nations has the territory constituting Mississippi belonged? What 

 was the southern part originally called? 



What especial honor fell to a Mississippi citizen on the organization of the Con- 

 federacy? 



