AR History Chapter. 10

Question 1

The belief that the Southern way of life was distinct from an incompatible with the northern ‘Yankee’ way of life

Answer 1

Southern Consciousness

Question 2

To withdraw from an organization or a government

Answer 2

Secede

Question 3

To end totally, and completely; to end immediately, as in slavery

Answer 3

Abolish

Question 4

To make appointments to government jobs based on grounds other than merit

Answer 4

Patronage

Question 5

A reasonable viewpoint that is not considered extreme; in the middle

Answer 5

Moderate

Question 6

The belief that if a law passed by the federal government was deemed unfair or unconstitutional, the state had a ride to accept, deny, or evaluate the policy

Answer 6

State’s Rights

Question 7

To encourage Western settlement, the US Congress in 1862 passed a law granting 160 acres free to any man who would occupy and cultivate the land

Answer 7

Homestead Act

Question 8

The immediate and total end to slavery

Answer 8

Abolition

Question 9

A group representing all states that cast the final vote in presidential elections, based upon the majority vote in each state. A candidate may win only 51 percent of the popular votes in a state, but when all the states electoral votes. The number of the electoral votes assigned each state is based upon population; the electoral vote of each state is equal to the number of its members the house of representatives plus its two senators.

Answer 9

Electoral College

Question 10

The nation formed by Southern states that seceded from the union because of fears of the elimination of slavery and a threat to states rights

Answer 10

Confederate States of America

Question 11

The president of the Confederate states of America

Answer 11

Jefferson Davis

Question 12

A large or central government, under which states are governed. In this context, do United States government in Washington, DC, the Union government.

Answer 12

Federal

Question 13

Those in the South who were willing to wait and see what Lincoln might do as president rather than secede merely on the base of his election

Answer 13

Cooperationists

Question 14

Those in the South who wanted to succeed from the Union only under certain conditions, namely, if President Lincoln took actions harmful to the South

Answer 14

Conditionalists

Question 15

Unionist from Fayetteville, who led secession conventions. At the second convention, he voted for secession

Answer 15

Judge David Walker

Question 16

In total; one hundred percent agreement

Answer 16

Unanimous

Question 17

From Madison County, the only person to vote against Arkansas’s secession. Later, he served as the union governor in Little Rock

Answer 17

Isaac Murphy

Question 18

A wealthy Little Rock resident who threw flowers from the balcony of the state house to Isaac Murphy when he voted against secession

Answer 18

Mrs. Frederick Trapnall

Question 19

Foot soldiers carrying rifles; the largest group in an army

Answer 19

Infantry

Question 20

Soldiers mounted on horseback

Answer 20

Calvary

Question 21

Heavy guns and the soldiers who operate them

Answer 21

Artillery Batteries

Question 22

The selection of a person or persons for required military service. A requirement or order to join

Answer 22

Draft

Question 23

In war, not only the dead, it also includes the number of wounded and missing

Answer 23

Casualties

Question 24

Individuals and independent bands taking part in irregular warfare, or special forces engaged in harassment and sabotage

Answer 24

Guerilla

Question 25

Military rule that may take over the civil government in times of crisis or war

Answer 25

Martial Law

Question 26

Established by Henri de Tonti in 1686, this was the first permanent European settlement in Arkansas. The area was near the confluence of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers

Answer 26

Arkansas Post

Question 27

Outlaws who terrorized civilians during and after the Civil War: so called because they were believed to have come from Kansas, the Jayhawk state

Answer 27

Jayhawkers

Question 28

Guerilla fighters and outlaws who terrorized civilians during and after the Civil War

Answer 28

Bushwhackers

Question 29

A powerful narcotic derive from opium used to deaden pain

Answer 29

Morphine

Question 30

A drug derived from chinchona (Peruvian) parentheses bark, used to treat the symptoms of malaria

Answer 30

Quinine

Question 31

A disease characterized by severe cramps and diarrhea, resulting in dehydration, and sometimes death. It is usually caused by a bacterial infection from unclean water or food

Answer 31

Dysentery

Question 32

The Union army term for slaves from the Confederacy who fled their homes into the Union army camps

Answer 32

Contraband

Question 33

An agency set up by the US government to provide food, clothing, shelter, and education to blacks, after they were freed from slavery

Answer 33

Freedman’s Bureau

Question 34

To end restrictions or limitations; to free as from slavery

Answer 34

Emancipation

Question 35

Issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, eight freed slaves, who lived in states that were fighting against the Union

Answer 35

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 36

Revolt, uprising

Answer 36

Insurrection