2nd Nine Weeks Test AR history

Question 1

What major principle was made clear after the Marbury vs Madison Supreme Court ruling?

Answer 1

Judicial Review

Question 2

Who was president during the war of 1812

Answer 2

James Madison

Question 3

Who was the Shawnee chief who attempted to unite the tribes

Answer 3

Tecumseh

Question 4

At what battle was the Shawnee tribe beat by Harrison’s forces

Answer 4

Tippecanoe

Question 5

Define impressment

Answer 5

The British capture 6000 US sailors and bring them to their ships

Question 6

At what battle did American forces beat the British and Natives ending Native resistance in the Ohio River Valley

Answer 6

Battle of Thames

Question 7

Who wrote the star spangled banner

Answer 7

Francis Scott Key

Question 8

What was the treaty that ended the war of 1812

Answer 8

Treaty of Ghent

Question 9

List cause of the war of 1812

Answer 9

Impressment

Question 10

Where was the first school in Arkansas territory

Answer 10

Russellville

Question 11

First secretary and acting governor of Arkansas Territory

Answer 11

Crittenden

Question 12

What is Crittenden’s political party

Answer 12

Whig Party

Question 13

What was the year that Arkansas became a territory

Answer 13

1819

Question 14

What was the year that Arkansas became a state

Answer 14

1836

Question 15

What was the second Capitol of Arkansas

Answer 15

Little Rock

Question 16

Let the Cherokee in east exchange their land for new land in Arkansas

Answer 16

Treaty 1817

Question 17

What the name of the mission that was built near Russellville by Protestants with the purpose of converting the Native Americans

Answer 17

Dwight Mission

Question 18

What major event caused many people,including Tennessee volunteers to travel through Arkansas

Answer 18

Texas Revolution

Question 19

Who is Arkansas’s sister state

Answer 19

Michigan

Question 20

What are two requirements for statehood

Answer 20

50,000 citizens

State constitution

Question 21

List the 5 counties of Territorial Arkansas

Answer 21

Lawrence
Clark
Arkansas
Hempstead
Pulaski

Question 22

What type of boat is this?

Boat with a rounded bottom and structure that helps it move straight;could be pulled upstream by men or horses or pushed along with poles

Answer 22

Keel Boat

Question 23

Describe the two major points of the Missouri Compromise 1820

Answer 23

States must enter as a free or slave state with a sister state
Missouri is the only slave state above the 36 30 line

Question 24

What was the serious obstacle to growth in Arkansas

Answer 24

Lack of capital in form of cash or credit

Question 25

How did the "specie circular" prompt a nationwide economic disaster

Answer 25

President Jackson required gold or silver to be used for all transactions

Question 26

What was the "Common School Law" that was put into effect by the General Assembly by Governor Yell

Answer 26

Set aside land in each township that was to be sold to provide money for schools

Question 27

What is a squatter

Answer 27

Someone who took over land because it had not been surveyed

Question 28

What was the cash crop for Arkansas

Answer 28

Cotton

Question 29

Who was primarily blamed for the violence in Arkansas

Answer 29

Young, unmarried men

Question 30

What is the oldest continuing school in Arkansas

Answer 30

St. Mary's Academy

Question 31

What is Manifest Destiny

Answer 31

Americans desire to expand the size of the country from ocean to ocean

Question 32

What was the name for the Arkansas troops that volunteered to fight in the Mexican War

Answer 32

Mounted Devils of Arkansas

Question 33

How did the California gold rush affect Arkansas in 1849

Answer 33

Arkansas was the starting point for one of the major trails to Califonia

Question 34

What was the Mountain Meadows Massacre

Answer 34

Massacre of Arkansas men,women, and children in Utah

Question 35

Why did some Arkansans NOT want Arkansas to become a state

Answer 35

Higher taxes

Question 36

Who won all the state offices in 1836

Answer 36

The "dynasty"

Question 37

Arkansas was the___ state to join the US

Answer 37

25th

Question 38

Who was the the first governor of Arkansas

Answer 38

Miller

Question 39

Laissez faire

Answer 39

Government doesn't interfere with business | Hands off policy

Question 40

Responsible for transatlantic cable

Answer 40

Cyrus Field

Question 41

Term that means interest to a region

Answer 41

Sectionalism

Question 42

Adams Onis treaty

Answer 42

Added Florida to US

Question 43

Why did factories Begin in New England

Answer 43

Fast moving rivers

Question 44

Rush Bagot treaty

Answer 44

Limited naval force in Great Lakes

Question 45

What did the American system do

Answer 45

Low tariff

Question 46

Where did the national road extend to in 1841

Answer 46

Vandalia,Illinois

Question 47

Erie Canal

Answer 47

Cheap transport for goods to NY

Question 48

Effect of Nat Turner's rebellion

Answer 48

Harsh laws on slaves and free blacks

Question 49

Monroe doctrine

Answer 49

Closed the US to colonization

Question 50

Who is credited for inventing the cotton gin

Answer 50

Eli Whitney