Powell Clayton

Question 1

A

Answer 1

The Arkansas Republican Party was dominated from the late 1860s by this northern-born man.

Question 2

B

Answer 2

The “carpetbag” governor who between 1868 and 1872 supported public education, railroads, and civil rights, but was associated with corruption.

Question 3

C

Answer 3

A Union general, who settled in Arkansas following the Civil War, played a prominent role as a Republican politician in the Reconstruction that followed that conflict.

Question 4

D

Answer 4

He became the first governor after the state’s readmission in the Union and pursued social, economic, and political policies typical of Republican regimes elsewhere in the South.

Question 5

E

Answer 5

He subsequently became an important figure in that party’s national politics until the time of his death.

Question 6

F

Answer 6

Founded the Republican Party in Arkansas and first Republican governor. (Goals: end violence of Ku Klux Klan, protect rights of African American, build economy,and build Republican Party)

Question 7

G

Answer 7

An American politician who was an Arkansas United States Senator.

Question 8

H

Answer 8

He also served as the United States ambassador for Mexico.

Question 9

I

Answer 9

The Battle of Pine Bluff made Powell Clayton a hero.