Arkansas Becomes a Territory

Question 1

New Territory was divided into 5 counties

Answer 1

Lawrence
Pulaski 
Clark
Hempstead
Arkansas

Question 2

1812-1835, four territorial governors presided these

Answer 2

James Miller
George Izard
John Pope
William Fulton

Question 3

Territorial Government

Answer 3

Governor appointed by the President

Secretary appointed

Question 4

“The Family Dynasty”

Answer 4

a political “dynasty” made by Conway who dominated Arkansas politics

Question 5

Conway-Critteden Duel

Answer 5

1827: Critteden Challenged Conway to a duel, which Critteden killed Conway with one shot

Question 6

William Woodruff

Answer 6

• sided with “The Family” writing many articles that promoted their political ideas.
• founder of the Arkansas Gazette

Question 7

Oldest Newspaper in Arkansas

Answer 7

Arkansas Gazette

Question 8

In 1812…

Answer 8

the territorial capital was moved from Arkansas Post to Little Rock

Question 9

Southwest Trail

Answer 9

most of the trail crossed Arkansas from northeast to southeast

Question 10

G.W. Featherstonhaugh

Answer 10

wrote about travels along the Military Road in Excursion Through the Slave States

Question 11

describe 2 major points of the Mississippi Compromise

Answer 11

point 1 || Missouri enters as a slave state and Maine enters as a free state.

point 2 || Missouri compromise prohibited slavery in Louisiana Purchase north of 36 degrees 30 degrees latitude line

Question 12

1817 Treaty

Answer 12

let Cherokee in East exchange their land for new land in Arkansas

Question 13

Fort Smith is set up to?

Answer 13

Preevent fighting between the Cherokee Tribe in the Osage Tribe

Question 14

Who wrote the Cherokee alphabet

Answer 14

Sequoyah

Question 15

Dwight Mission

Answer 15

first formal educator and conversion of Native Americans in Arkansas in 1824

Question 16

3 parts of the Indian Removal

Answer 16

• containment of Indian on hunting lands
• concentration on reservations
• removal to Indian territory

Question 17

In 1830…

Answer 17

Congress passed the Indian removal act

Question 18

wheels made of horizontal blades powered by steam engines that moved steamboats up and down the Arkansas River

Answer 18

paddlewheels

Question 19

boat with a rounded bottom and a keel to help it move straight; could be pulled up the stream by men, horses, or pushed along with poles

Answer 19

keel boat

Question 20

A raft liked boat used for floating downstream

Answer 20

flat boat

Question 21

boats designed to remove snacks from River Channels used to remove Red River Raft

Answer 21

snagboat

Question 22

Texas Revolution 1835

Answer 22

36 volunteers (mainly from Tennessee) head to Texas to fight the Mexican government for independence

Question 23

Jim Bowie

Answer 23

Jim Bowie popularized the Arkansas Toothpick

Question 24

Requirements for application to statehood

Answer 24

50,000 citizens in territory

write a state constitution

Question 25

what year did Arkansas become a state

Answer 25

1836

Question 26

Arkansas becomes a territory 1819

Answer 26

enough people had moved to Arkansas for Arkansas to petition Congress to become it own territory