AR History Chapt. 7

Question 1

One skilled in negotiations or building relationships with foreign leaders and nations.

Answer 1

Diplomat

Question 2

Referring to medicine; having an ability or quality to treat or heal.

Answer 2

Medicinal

Question 3

Discovered in 1850 and made a state park in 1957, this is Arkansas’ largest spring. Nine million gallons of water flow from the spring on an hourly basis. The spring forms a ten acre lake and then flows southward to become the Spring River, where residents and visitors alike enjoy floating and trout fishing.

Answer 3

Mammoth Spring

Question 4

A raftlike boast used for floating downstream.

Answer 4

Flatboat

Question 5

A boat with a rounded bottom and a keel to help it move straight that could be pulled upstream by men or horses or pushed along with poles.

Answer 5

Keelboat

Question 6

On the bottom of a boat, a ridge where the rounded sides of the vessel come together, used to stabilize the boat and keep it on a straight course.

Answer 6

Keel

Question 7

The main thoroughfare to Spanish settlements in the southwest, starting at Sainte Genevieve , Missouri, and traversing Arkansas into Texas and beyond.

Answer 7

Southwest Trail

Question 8

Outlaws on the run from justice.

Answer 8

Fugitives

Question 9

A complete and specific count of a population.

Answer 9

Census

Question 10

A wild creature known in America as the buffalo, a member of the bovine (cow) family.

Answer 10

Bison

Question 11

A once plentiful breed of bird in North America that became extinct during the 1800s from excessive hunting.

Answer 11

Passenger Pigeons

Question 12

Ground by a large stone wheel rotated by animal or water power in order to turn wheat into flour.

Answer 12

Milled

Question 13

A type of fibrous herb that produces material suitable for making rope.

Answer 13

Hemp

Question 14

A plant that yields a dark blue dye.

Answer 14

Indigo

Question 15

A mosquito borne chronic illness characterized by chills and fever.

Answer 15

Malaria

Question 16

A lethal mosquito borne disease that swept through the South periodically during the 1800s.

Answer 16

Yellow Fever

Question 17

Another name for malaria or flu.

Answer 17

Ague

Question 18

Another name for malaria.

Answer 18

Bilious Fever

Question 19

Major outbreaks of contagious disease.

Answer 19

Epidemics

Question 20

A place where the Earth’s underlying plates come together.

Answer 20

Geologic Fault

Question 21

A town in southeast Missouri, near the Mississippi River and just north of the Arkansas border.

Answer 21

New Madrid

Question 22

Earthquake along the New Madrid fault in northeast Arkansas and southeast Missouri.

Answer 22

New Madrid earthquake

Question 23

Shaking of the ground that occurs during earthquakes.

Answer 23

Tremors

Question 24

A numeric scale used to describe the intensity of an earthquake based on the amount of the energy it has.

Answer 24

Richter Scale