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Arkansas History Final
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46
History
Undergraduate 2
12/12/2011

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Blue Ridge
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Is not a region of Arkansas
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William Fulton
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The Last Governor of Arkansas territory and one of its senators as a State
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Powell Clayton
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Arkansas Republic Party was dominated from the late 1860s by Northern-Born 
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Frederick Steele
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The Union Commander who captured Little Rock in September 1863
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The lone hold out against Arkansas seceding from the Union was
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Issac Murphy
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The governor of Arkansas under Union occupation in the early reconstruction. Chosen on the basis of the Constitution of 1864.
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Issac Murphy
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The trail of tears
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Indians from southeastern United States passed through Arkansas during the 1830s along a path know as 
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Bonds of the Real Estate Bank
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The englishman James Holford eventually became identified with
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The Arkansas Gazette established at Arkansas Post in 1819 and moved to Little Rock in 1821 was the first newspaper in Arkansas. Its founder was
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William Woodruff.
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The Arkansan who became chairman of the senate Foreign Relations Committee during the Mexican War, only to resign his seat to become a peace commissioner to Mexico was:
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Ambrose Servier
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Founder of the Arkansas Post
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De Tonti
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Rejection of Republican Rule

Put power in the hands of the redeemers

Vote to write a new state constitution

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Chaos of the Brooks Baxter War.
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The Brooks Baxter War erupted over what issue in Arkansas?
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Slavery
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The overproduction of cotton at a time of bad credit led to the establishment of the agricultural practice of:

 

 

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Sharecropping
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An agency of the federal government provided assistance to the black and poor white population during and after the Civil War
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Freedmens Bureau
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Arkansas Unionists during and after the Civil War
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Scalawags 
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Largest Battle of the Civil War west of the Mississippi

Determined that Missouri would remain under Union control

Unusual in that more Confederate troops were present than Union Troops

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The Battle of Pea Ridge
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The "Boy Matyr of the Confederacy" was Arkansan
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David Dodd
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Thomas Hindman begun his political career by opposing power of what politcal group of the 1850's
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The Know-Nothings
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One of the chief reasons for the Whig Party's collapse in the 1850's was the divisiveness of the issue of 
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Slavery
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In the 1852 campaign for governor, Elias Conway advocated not railroads but
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Good Dirt Roads
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The eastern part of Arkansas bordering the Mississippi River is generally known as the 
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Delta
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The indian mounds at Plum Bayou are wrongly associated with what tribe of early Mexican peoples?
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The Toltec
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The first European expedition to make inroads into Arkansas as recorded by the gentleman of Elvas, was led by Conquistador 
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De Soto
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In laying claim to the valley of the Mississippi and its tributaries for France, La Salle named the vast province
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Louisanna 
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He was a French Jesuit Priest
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Bernard du Poisson
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Arkansas became a part of the United States though what Treaty?
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The Louisanna Purchase
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The chief Whig newspaper in Arkansas in territorial days was the 
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Arkansas Advocate
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The 'Family" or "Dynasty" often spoken of in early Arkansas politics were relatives and friends of what family?
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The Conways
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In order to build a new statehouse, the federal govenment provided in the early 1830's a grant of?
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Ten sections of public land
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According to the first Arkansas State Constitution, governors were elected for terms of 
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Four years.
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The major route for overland travel through Arkansas  to Texas during territorial and early statehood periods was the 
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Southwest trail
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Columbus Williams relates that during the antebellum period of his life as a slave was
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harsh due to overwork and cruel punishment
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In 1837 J.J. ANthony was stabbed to death on the floor of the State House of Representatives by 
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Speaker John Wilson
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The easternmost region of the state is referred to as
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Mississippi Alluvial embayment
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A huge earthquake or series of quakes affected the community of 
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New mandrid
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The political figure who assumed chief leadership of the Dynasty in the 1850's was
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Robert Ward Johnson
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Opposition to the war in Northern Arkansas
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Was reflected by the organization of "Peace Societies"
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Republican factions in the Brooks-Baxter war
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Minstrel and Brindletails
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The dynasty canidate Richard Johnson was defeated for governor in 1860 by
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henry Rector
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Martial Law was established in Arkansas in 1862 when the state was put under military command of Confederate General
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Thomas Hindman
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The two plateau regions associated with the Arkansas Ozarks are the
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Salem and Springfield Plateaux
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The first frenchman to view the site of Little Rock
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Bernard de la Harpe
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In 1762 Arkansas along with the rest of Frances colonial possessions was transferred to 
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Spain
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The American officer who received the formal transfer of Arkansas in 1804 was
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James Many
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The first governor of Arkansas territory was
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James Miller
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