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The first major European expedition into the territory that became Mississippi was Spanish, led by Hernando de Soto, who passed through in 1540. The French claimed the territory that included Mississippi as part of their colony of New France and started settlement along the Gulf Coast. They created the first Fort Maurepas under Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville on the site of modern Ocean Springs (or Old Biloxi) in 1699.
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Hernando decided he wanted to find riches and decided to explore the northern territories. So his main purpose for exploring the New World was to search for gold and silver and in this process he introduced the New World to hogs, horses, and diseases. The Native Americans at first thought they were gods only because they were riding horses! The Spanish however did not treat the Native Americans very well. Over time throughout his exploration, he ran into numerous attacks from the tribes, which would affect their travel route. Failing to find gold in Mississippi, his men traveled across the river and eventually made it into modern day Texas. De Soto died in 1542 from a previous battle wound.
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To ensure that the natives still believed he was a god, he made his men conceal his death by burying him in the Mississippi River. His men continued on after his death and left Mississippi for Mexico since they never found any gold or silver and they didn't want to return to Spain.
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The French claimed the territory that included Mississippi as part of their colony of New France and started settlement along the Gulf Coast. They created the first Fort Maurepas under Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville on the site of modern Ocean Springs (or Old Biloxi) in 1699. In 1716, the French founded Natchez as Fort Rosalie on the Mississippi River; it became the dominant town and trading post of the area. In this period of the early 18th century, the French Roman Catholic Church created pioneer parishes at Old Biloxi/Ocean Springs and Natchez. The church also established seven pioneer parishes in present-day Louisiana and two in Alabama, which was also part of New France.
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Over one hundred years later, the French were the next to explore Mississippi. The French began their exploration in Canada and had a goal to find a better trade route to Asia. They had heard of the great Mississippi river and Indian tales of how it “flowed into a great sea.” Surely that means the Pacific right??? Wrong! But they did not know this, so the French governor of Canada sent Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet to explore the river. Though the river did not flow towards China, they realized the trading opportunities this great Mississippi river could do for the fur trade and other trading. The French also introduced Christianity to the Native Americans, another goal of theirs.
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By the time the French arrived in Mississippi the main three tribes left were the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Natchez. The land was claimed for France, and called it the Louisiana Province after King Louis.
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The Mississippi Territory was sparsely populated and suffered initially from a series of difficulties that hampered its development. Pinckney's Treaty of 1795 ended Spanish control over Mississippi, but Spain continued to hamper the territory's growth by harassing commercial traders. It restricted American trading and travel on the Mississippi River down to New Orleans, the major port on the Gulf Coast. Americans had continuing land disputes with the Spanish, even after taking control of much of this territory through the Louisiana Purchase (1803) from France. In 1810 the European-American settlers in parts of West Florida rebelled and declared their freedom from Spain.
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President James Madison declared that the region between the Mississippi and Perdido rivers, which included most of West Florida, had already become part of the United States under the terms of the Louisiana Purchase. The section of West Florida between the Pearl and Perdido rivers, known as the District of Mobile, was annexed to Mississippi Territory in 1812; Americans from the United States occupied Kiln, Mississippi, in 1813.
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In the early 1600s, British citizens were fleeing England to escape religious persecution and find religious freedom. From then on more and more colonists arrived and established the Thirteen Colonies. As more colonists arrived more began to move west to find more land, eventually making their way towards Mississippi. The English were in search of land, which in their culture, as in most, means power. They quickly realized with more and more territory they gained, the harder is was for them to take. They ran into many encounters with Native Americans. The English issued the Proclamation of 1763, which helped to prevent the natives and settlers from fighting over land.
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After a ton of failed attempts to establish a settlement along the Mississippi River, Sieur d’Iberville was sent to establish a colony. Iberville expedition landed on Ship Island in 1699. They encountered the Biloxi Indians who took them to their village. From there, Iberville and his brother Bienville explored the Gulf Coast looking for the Mississippi River.
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"Honestly, absolutely nothing is dedicated on this book because it was created by a 14 year old teen. Yes, this is a project for school but don't let that stop you from reading this."
- Joshua Brown Jr.

Created & published on StoryJumper™ ©2025 StoryJumper, Inc.
All rights reserved. Sources: storyjumper.com/attribution
Preview audio:
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The first major European expedition into the territory that became Mississippi was Spanish, led by Hernando de Soto, who passed through in 1540. The French claimed the territory that included Mississippi as part of their colony of New France and started settlement along the Gulf Coast. They created the first Fort Maurepas under Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville on the site of modern Ocean Springs (or Old Biloxi) in 1699.
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