AR History Chapt. 6 Flashcards
A surge of creativity in Europe resulting in artistic, scientific, and literary achievement brought on in part by rediscovery of Greek and Roman cultures and accomplishments. It began around 1400 in Italy and continued through the Elizabethan era of the early 1600s in England.
Renaissance
The buying, selling, or bartering of goods for profit or benefit.
Trade
Lands and islands of southeastern Asia including India, Indochina, also called the East Indies.
Indies
Rude, unmannerly, brutal, uncivilized persons.
Savages
A Native American chief who ruled over an area in northeast Arkansas in the 1500s.
Casqul
A huge tangle of logs, mud, and brush that accumulated over the centuries in the Red River that greatly impeded travel until its removal in the mid-nineteenth century.
Great Red River Raft
Primitive, basic, uncultivated, simplicity; not sophisticated
Crude
Something passed down by an ancestor or someone or something from the past; the remembrance or impact left by a person, place, thing, or event.
Legacy
An Indian pipe made of stone and signifying peaceful intentions.
Calumet
The french name given to lands claimed by La Salle, chosen in honor of King Louis XIV.
Louisiana
Pictorial symbols forming a design that represents an individual or family, usually royalty. They are generally displayed on a shield or embroidered onto a flag or piece of clothing.
Coat of arms
The first and most important European establishment in Arkansas. From 1686 to 1821, it served as the local governmental, military, and trade headquarters for the French, the Spanish, and finally the United States.
Arkansas Post
A Scottish inventor and land speculator who convinced the King of France that he could sell and develop parts of New France (Louisiana) to French settlers. He advertised Arkansas Post and falsely claimed it had a great deal of gold to be mined. He then went bankrupt and abandoned the settlers. The colony failed.
John Law
The point where two or more streams or rivers join and flow together.
Confluence
A roofed passage similar to a breezeway; especially one connecting two parts of a cabin.
Dogtrot
A rhythmic tune, for dancing, usually played on a fiddle; also used to refer to the dance itself.
Reel
An old card game involving money staked on the winning hand involving the taking of card tricks (four cards of the same suit, such as hearts) as in the game of bridge.
Loo
A Native American people of the United States related to the Choctaws. They were one of the Five Civilized Tribes who were forced to abandon their homelands and relocate to the Indian Territory during Indian removal.
Chickasaws
Clothing made from buck skin, the soft suede like leather usually made of deer hide.
Buckskins
A community in northeast Arkansas named for the troughs settlers used to melt bear fat.
Oil Trough
The nine-tear North American conflict of the Seven Years’ War. As a result of the war, Canada fell under British control, while Spain gained Louisiana in return for its loss of Florida to the British. The role of the French, their rule and presence in North America was virtually eliminated.
French and Indian War
The War for American Independence fought between the British and their American colonists from 1776 to 1783.
Revolutionary War
