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Week 30 SS - MS's Connection to Further Away Neighboring States
By Sabrina Jennings
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Question 1
1.
In what year did Hurricane Katrina hit the United States?
(IN YOUR NEWSPAPER, highlight your text evidence and write and circle the question number beside it.)
2004
2003
2006
2005
Question 2
2.
How did the state of Mississippi help Florida after Hurricane Katrina?
(IN YOUR NEWSPAPER, highlight your text evidence and write and circle the question number beside it.)
They sent food.
They sent trucks.
They sent refugees.
They sent money.
Question 3
3.
What natural disaster claimed more than 200 lives in Mississippi in 1927?
(IN YOUR NEWSPAPER, highlight your text evidence and write and circle the question number beside it.)
The Great Earthquake
The Great Flood
The Great Twister
The Great Hurricane
Question 4
4.
Use this image to answer the following question.
What is this feature that helps to prevent flooding?
(This question will not have text evidence in your newspaper to highlight.)
Bunker
Park
Bridge
Question 5
5.
Why is Greenville, Mississippi compared to Athens, Greece?
(IN YOUR NEWSPAPER, highlight your text evidence and write and circle the question number beside it.)
It is an ancient city of learning.
Many movie stars are from Greenville, Mississippi.
More than 70 published authors are from there.
It is the place where Greek scholars met.
Question 6
6.
Who is AJ Holloway?
(IN YOUR NEWSPAPER, highlight your text evidence and write and circle the question number beside it.)
He was a governor of Mississippi during Hurricane Katrina.
He was mayor of Biloxi during Hurricane Katrina.
He was the president during Hurricane Katrina.
He was a famous poet who wrote about Hurricane Katrina.
Question 7
7.
What is one idea to prevent flooding in Mississippi?
(IN YOUR NEWSPAPER, highlight your text evidence and write and circle the question number beside it.)
Build taller levees
Reintroduce swamps
Drain the rivers
Build more bridges
Question 8
8.
What type of machine was made in the 1790s that easily separated cotton from its seeds?
(IN YOUR NEWSPAPER, highlight your text evidence and write and circle the question number beside it.)
Tractors
Cotton Gin
Telegraph
Seed Seperator
Question 9
9.
After the Great Flood of 1927, Mississippi came up with a way to "tame the wild Mississippi River". What was their solution?
(IN YOUR NEWSPAPER, highlight your text evidence and write and circle the question number beside it.)
They turned Mound's Landing into a swamp.
They built many bridges.
They created floodways, long levee systems, to take water to locations that would not flood.
Question 10
10.
What effect did the invention of the cotton gin have on Mississippi?
(IN YOUR NEWSPAPER, highlight your text evidence and write and circle the question number beside it.)
Mississippi became known as the "Athens of the Delta".
A great flood.
Mississippi became a territory in 1798.
A big migration into Mississippi by people who were looking for jobs.
Levee
They took food to all that were impacted by the flood.