Arkansas History Final

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Who was this Arkansas-reared composer of classical symphonies? (Give full name)

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William Grant Still

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This man was elected to the U.S.Senate in 1944 and served until 1974, thirty years. Who was he? (Give full name)

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J. William Fulbright

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This man helped bring electrification into the rural areas of Arkansas by working with the New Deal agency, REA. He was? (Give full name)

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Clyde Taylor Ellis

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Who was the senator elected in 1942 whose name is on the waterway that runs along Fort Smith?

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Joy Mcclellan

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This man served as governor from 1949 - 1953. He was part of the G.I. Revolt, young politicians returning from WWII who set out to clean up corruption in state and local governments. (Give first and last names)

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Sidney McMath

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Identify the woman and man on the Arkansas ferry who were campaigning for her election as a U.S. Senator in 1932. (Give first and last names)

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Hattie Caraway & Huey Long

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How many counties are in Arkansas?

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75

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Who was this chief organizer of the Southern Tenant Farmer's Union pictured?

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H L Mitchell

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Camps near Rohwer and Jerome were used during World War II to house:

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Japanese-American internees.

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Consolidation was an effort to improve schools through:

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Reducing the number of school districts in the state

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Arkansas' only Pulitizer Prize winning poet was:

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John Gould Fletcher

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Michael Lindsay's book, The Big Hat Law, explains much about

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How important the coming of paved highways were to state-wide law enforcement

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Union County is in what part of the state?

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Southern tier and is the home of Murphy Oil (once Lion Oil)

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Which was NOT one of the three major areas of commercial agriculture in twentieth-century Arkansas?

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Wheat and Corn

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The predominate industry in terms of workers, production, and importance to economy of Fort Smith in mid twentieth century was:

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Furniture

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"Cattle on a thousand hills" is a:

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Book about the Arkansas Ozarks

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Oil was discovered in the 1920's in what tier of Arkansas counties?

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Southern countries along the Louisiana border

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Why was rural electrification so important to Southern states including Arkansas? Who opposed REA and TVA?

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Because the great majority of farm families in those states had no electricity which limited their production and their life choices. Private utilities like AP & L.

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What two key segments of Arkansas social infrastructure suffered with the budget cuts of depression era governors?

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Education and highway building

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What is not a mineral resource found in Arkansas?

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Silver

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Joseph T. Robinson, Senator from Arkansas, ran on the 1928 Democratic ticket with presidential candidate:

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Al Smith

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This man pictured was the last to be elected to the U.S. Senate by a state legislature, ran on the Democratic ticket in 1928 for Vice President, and moved the New Deal legislation through Congress for FDR. He was:

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Joe T. Robinson

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Why did Governor Hillman Brough call on U.S. Army troops stationed at Camp Pike to put down the riots in Phillips County in 1919?

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It was his best option since the State Police did not exist then

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What recent history by your textbook author Jeanne Whayne illuminates the career of the Arkansas man who built the "World's Largest Cotton Plantation?"

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Delta Empire

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Arkansas cotton, like in other cotton states, was picked entirely by hand until:

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Just after World War II, when in 1946 the first mechanical cotton picker was invented.

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In the 1930 census, how many Arkansas towns had a population of 10,000 or above?

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8

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How did Harvey Couch set about changing the habits, indeed the culture of families in Arkansas?

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By encouraging them to electrify their homes and use radios and appliances.

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Students from Commonwealth College in Mena, Arkansas, likely had what sort of political leaning?

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Leftist

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What was the great natural disaster than struck Arkansas in 1927?

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Flooding

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AP&L utility built Arkansas' first hydroelectric dam on which of the rivers below?

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The Ouachita

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Elisha Baxter's bitter campaign for governor and its aftermath effectively ended what era in Arkansas?

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Reconstruction

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This drawing of African American soldiers in Little Rock was from what magazine of the Civil War period?

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Harper's Weekly

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From Huntsville, Arkansas, this Unionist was elected governor in what year?

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1864

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This elected governor of Arkansas became the first from the state to serve in a presidential _____________________.

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Cabinet

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What was the goal of Frederick Steele's 1864 Red River Expedition?

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To join up with Nathaniel Banks' Union Force in Shreveport and sever Texas from the Confederacy

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The Civil War freed approximately how many slaves in Arkansas?

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100,000

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What 1863 battle in Indian Territory opened up the road for an invasion of Fort Smith by General James Blount?

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Honey Springs

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What Arkansas battle in March 7 and 8,1862 resulted in Union control of Missouri and North Arkansas, a result that proved a costly blow to Confederate hopes to win the Civil War?

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Pea Ridge

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What Civil War engagement significant to the immediate fate of Fort Smith took place in Indian Territory?

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Battle of Honey Springs

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The Poison Spring battle in 1864 had reports of cold blooded killing of wounded and captured Union soldiers from the First Kansas Regiment made up of:

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African-Americans

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Unconventional warfare made conditions in Arkansas during the Civil War particularly:

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Devistating

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The Confederate general who recreated an army in Arkansas in 1862 only to be defeated at Prairie Grove was:

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Thomas Hindman

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The Trans-Mississippi Department during the Civil War was made of all EXCEPT:

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Mississippi

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A re-enactment from the Battle of Jenkin's Ferry in 1864 were in the opening scenes of what Civil War movie?

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Gettysburg

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What best would categorize the political views of Isaac Parker?

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GOP Repulican

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Arkansas' first Jim Crow law segregated:

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Railroad passenger cars

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What was the unacceptable outcome of the Civil War for Arkansas and other ex-Confederate states?

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African-American Equality

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When on the campaign trail, Jeff Davis typically pitched his tirades against blacks. How did that strategy work for him?

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So well that he was the first governor to be elected for three terms.

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Who was the first African American elected municipal judge in the U. S.?

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Mifflin Gibbs

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Which of the Clayton brothers lived in Fort Smith?

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William H. H.

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Slavery was abolished in the United States by:

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The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution

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Who were Bass Reeves, Addison Beck, Heck Thomas, and Thomas Fortune?

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Deputy marshals who rode for the Parker Court.

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After the _Plessy v. Ferguson_ ruling by the U. S. Supreme Court in 1896 what became consititutional in Arkansas and in other southern states?

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Segregation in public schools and public places

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The Arkansas governor whose biography by Raymond Arsenault is entitled "Wild Ass of the Ozarks" because of his race-baiting campaigns is:

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Jeff Davis

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What was the purpose of the white primary and the poll tax law?

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Better control who was voting, meaning African American and lower income whites.

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Who was the first Arkansas gubernatorial candidate to receive votes from a women voters?

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Thomas McRae

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Arkansas cotton, like in other cotton states, was picked entirely by hand until:

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Just after World War II, when in 1946 the first mechanical cotton picker was invented

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When on the campaign trail, Jeff Davis typically pitched his tirades against blacks. How did that strategy work for him?

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So well that he was the first governor to be elected for three terms.

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The legal ability of the electorate to place laws on the books through use of the ballot known as:

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Initiative

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The Elaine Twelve were associated with:

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a 1919 race riot and massacre in eastern Arkansas

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President Thomas Jefferson sent what expedition to explore the Ouachita River?

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Dunbar-Hunter.

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The 1849 Fort Smith Expedition's destination was:

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California

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What did New York congressmen James Tallmadge and John Taylor try to legislate against in forming Missouri and Arkansas?

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That slavery in both places would phased out of existence

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A landmark in western Oklahoma was so named ____________ on the maps made by Captain Marcy during his first expedition.

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Rock Mary

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Robert Ward Johnson, a member of the "Family" which successfully ruled Arkansas and were opposed by which party members?

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Whigs

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Map shows the route taken by what famous Arkansas wagon train and cattle drive?

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Fancher-Baker

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What newly independent country appeared on the border with Arkansas at the very time of statehood?

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Texas

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C. F. "Fent" Noland wrote stories about what category of early Arkansans?

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Bear Hunters

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According to historian Tom DeBlack, Arkansas ranked _____________ among the 33 states in personal wealth per capita in 1860?

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About in the middle

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What U. S. Army officer commanded an escort of wagon trains bound for the goldfields in 1849 and mapped a route to Dona Ana in so doing?

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Randolph Barnes Marcy

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With the founding of Fort Smith in 1817-18 by the rifle company came the first post sutler (storekeeper). He was:

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Hugh Glenn

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The northern boundary of Arkansas Territory (36 degrees 30 minutes) became noted historically because of:

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The Missouri Compromise

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Supporting a theory that people tend to migrate along the same latitude lines as their previous homes is the fact that the first five elected governors of Arkansas were born in:

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Tennessee

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Officer of Arkansas Territory that did not have counties named after him out of honor:

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Meriwether Lewis

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Passing through Arkansas in 1834 as a government geologist, what traveler had unflattering remarks published about Arkansas and its people?

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George W. Featherstonhaugh

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The War with Mexico occurred brought hero status and a presidential nomination to what former commander at Fort Smith?

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Zachary Taylor

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The New Madrid Earthquakes over the winter of 1811-1812 had what effect on Arkansas?

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Cause sunken lands and tangled swamps in eastern Arkansas

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During its territorial days, what groups had all claims to Arkansas lands extinguished?

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Native Americans

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This mission served what Southeastern Indians after their voluntary migration into Arkansas Territory?

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Cherokee

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Arkansas Territory was created by Congress in 1819 and President James Monroe named which of the following men as the first territorial governor?

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James E. Miller

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The second governor of Arkansas and resigned U.S. congressman shown in the picture was killed in battle at Buena Vista in February 1847. He was?

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Archibald Yell

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Thomas Nuttall gained historical renown as a _______________________.

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Naturalist and travel writer.

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The soldiers at Fort Smith were besieged in April 1821 by Mad Buffalo and his warriors of the ________________________ tribe.

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Osage

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U.S. President during the War with Mexico which added enormous territories to the country under the banner Manifest Destiny was:

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James K. Polk

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The term historian Donald McNeilly used to describe the typical pro-slavery settler of early Arkansas was

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Boy Planter

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Map from textbook shows two expeditons both of which were:

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Sent out by President Thomas Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Purchase Territory

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Arkansas was admitted to the Union in 1836 as a slave state during the ______________ presidential administration and number ____________ in order of admission.

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Jackson; 25

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What made David Hall and Peter Caulder unique among settlers and homesteaders in Arkansas Territory?

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They were free black men and heads of households

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The commander of the rifle company that established Fort Smith at Belle Point and his soldiers were veterans of:

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The War of 1812

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The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and its territorial provisions came just as:Selected Answer: [None Given]

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Gold was discovered in North Carolina

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What site is captured in this painting by Annie Hatley?

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Arkansa Post

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What two European great powers colonized and adminis tered lands now Arkansas?

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Spaniard Hernando de Soto & Frenchman Henri de Tonti

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Name two trade goods visible in this painting of 1735 New Orleans

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Buffalo Ribs & Buffalo Tallow

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What academic journal is particularly concerned with Arkansas history and is indexed?

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Arkansas Historical Quarterly (AHQ)

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The Ozarks are similar to what larger mountainous region of the United States?

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Appalachia

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Charles Banks Wilson was an artist who gave us a portrait of a __________________ warrior.

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Quapaw

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What Indian tribe attacked the Spanish garrison at Arkansas Post in 1783 (in the aftermath of the American War for Independence)?

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Chickasaw

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This white buffalo robe depicts interaction between the French and the _________________.

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Quapaw

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French woodsmen and trappers were called by their French language name of:

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Coureur de Bois

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John Law was a financier and developer who planned for European settlement Louisiana which resulted in the founding of:

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New Orleans

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Who was the last Spanish governor of Louisiana?

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Juan Salcedo

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What was the dominant, one might say imperialistic, tribe of Arkansas before the Louisiana Purchase by the U. S. government?

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Osage

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Which Spanish governor is the namesake of a Texas city?

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Bernardo de Galvez

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Who were the original Americans contacted by de la Salle in present day Arkansas?

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The Quapaw

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Which below is NOT an historic indigenous Indian tribe of Arkansas?

1.Cherokee

2. Quapaw

3.Caddo

4. Osage

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Cherokee

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Joutel was a chronicler and travel companion of what explorer?

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Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle

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Alejandro O'Reilly lived up to his "Bloody" nickname as governor of Spanish Louisiana as he applied force and severe methods in curtailing the disobedient:

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French citizens of New Orleans.

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Spain gained control of territory that includes present day Arkansas following the Treaty of Paris of what year?

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1763

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Which below is NOT a geographical region of Arkansas?

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Boston Mountains

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How long ago did Paleo-Indians first reach the land now called Arkansas?

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12,000 years ago

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Three Sisters" refers to:

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a food group for Mississippian Era people.

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James Sevier Conway

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He was a member of the wealthy extended Conway-Johnson-Sevier clan that became so influential in early Arkansas that it earned the nickname “The Family” and achieved considerable control over politics and economy in Arkansas.

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Archibald Yell

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After his term as governor, he was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives where he supported President Polk in urging war with Mexico. To prove his determination, at its outbreak he left Congress and returned to Arkansas where he was elected regimental commander of the First Arkansas Mounted Rifles. He served under Zachary Taylor and was killed in action at the Battle of Buena Vista in February 1847.

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Thomas Stevenson Drew

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He was a planter and an attorney. He married Cinderella Bettis whose father was a wealthy landowner and he gave the couple eight hundred acres in Arkansas which he operated as a plantation with twenty slaves. During his years in office, the “Boy Planters” from neighboring slave states migrated into the new cotton lands of southeast and southwest Arkansas. He supported the annexation of Texas and the war with Mexico. After his term in office, he practiced law in Fort Smith.

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John Selden Roane

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He arrived in Crawford County in 1840 as a prosecuting attorney. He raised a company of volunteers, The Van Buren Avengers, for service in the Mexican War. Newspaper snipping and angry exchanges between him and Albert Pike over their actions at the Battle of Buena Vista brought on a duel. The two dueled near Fort Smith on July 29, 1847. Both survived. A plantation owner after his governorship, he supported secession and received a commission as a brigadier general in the Confederate army. He fought in the 1862 Battle of Prairie Grove.

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Elias Nelson Conway

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He was a brother of James Sevier Conway and related to the Sevier family which combined to dominate Arkansas politics prior to the Civil War. He was a good friend of Roswell Beebe, who acquired thousands of acres of military bounty lands in Arkansas. During his two terms, Arkansas slave ownership expanded dramatically as flush times hit the cotton industry. He never married and attended an array of churches including the Roman Catholic Church.

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The ensuing Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (February 1848) included these provisions:

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1) Mexico recognized the Rio Grande as the southern boundary of Texas;

2) California and New Mexico territories ceded to the United States;

3) US agreed to pay Mexico $15 million in indemnities.

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1st Cabinet from Arkansas

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Grover Cleveland

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As the Depression began, only _______ percent of Arkansas' farms used electricity

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3

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Arkansas agriculture might be categorized in three general types according to landforms andgeography:

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plantation style, rice cultivation, and hill farms.

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What year did a mechanical cotton picker begin to operate in southern fields.

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1946

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Pearl Harbor occurred:

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December 7, 1941

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When did the US declare war on Japan?

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December 8, 1941

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When did Germany declare war on the United States?

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December 9, 1941

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In the United States how many men were inducted into the military from 1940-1945?

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Over 15,000,000 men

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Why are our most recent plants coal burners instead of the cleaner, more modern, and more efficient nuclear generators?

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Safety and hazardous wastes are the main reasons.