The MississippiTerritory was organized on April 7, 1798, from territory ceded by Georgia and South Carolina; it was later twice expanded to include disputed territory claimed by both the U.S. and Spain.
Mississippi was the second state to secede from the Union as one of the Confederate States of America on January 9, 1861.
Mississippi was considered to typify the Deep South during the era of Jim Crow.
MississippiTerritory was was a historic, organized territory of the United States from April 7, 1798, and expanded twice (in 1804 and 1812), until it extended from the Gulf of Mexico to the southern border of Tennessee.
The MississippiTerritory was organized in 1798 from land that had been disputed by the U.S. and Spain until Spain ceded claim with Treaty of Madrid in 1795.
In 1817 the MississippiTerritory was divided, when the western portion became the state of Mississippi, and the eastern became the Alabama Territory, with St.
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