Ch 5

Question 0

He was replaced by who

Answer 0

George izard

Question 1

Who is named the first governor of the new Arkansas territory

Answer 1

James Miller

Question 2

Who brought the first printing press to Arkansas

Answer 2

William Woodruff

Question 3

He published arkansas first newspaper called

Answer 3

Arkansas gazette

Question 4

Name three reasons ar capitial hanged from at post to lr

Answer 4

They did not want it around swamps It was surrounded by mosquitoes. It was a rough place to live

Question 5

What was the first steamboat to travel the ar river toward the new capital

Answer 5

Eagle

Question 6

What was the deadly practice people used to restore there honor

Answer 6

Dueling

Question 7

Define rivalry two political parties

Answer 7

Means competition the Whigs and family

Question 8

State house cost what

Answer 8

123,379

Question 9

How were funds raised to pay for the house

Answer 9

By selling off land

Question 10

What was used to deliver mail

Answer 10

Stagecoaches

Question 11

Who was nicknamed the reverend devil

Answer 11

John murrell

Question 12

Three reason Jim Bowie was famous

Answer 12

Land spectaluotor Role in Texas Revolution Survived a duel that turned into a knife fight

Question 13

Antebellum mean

Answer 13

Before the war

Question 14

Cherokee forced to move

Answer 14

Indian territory Oklahoma

Question 15

What is a squatter

Answer 15

A person or family who lived on government land and hope to own it someday

Question 16

What does manifest destiny mean?

Answer 16

To expand the country from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific ocean

Question 17

What factors led to the Mexican-American war?

Answer 17

Polk made Texas the 31st state but Santa Anna and Mexican officials were angry because they thought it was still part of Mexico.

Question 18

Name to famous Arkansans who led troops in the Mexican-American war

Answer 18

Albert Pike

Archibald Yell

Question 19

Name a slave who ultimately became the President of the Arkansas Baptist college

Answer 19

Joseph Albert Booker

Question 20

What is a cotton gin?

Answer 20

It was an invention that separated the cotton fibers from the seed

Question 21

Who invented the cotton gin?

Answer 21

Eli Whitney

Question 22

Why did the invention of the cotton gin result in the need for more slaves?

Answer 22

Because the landowners bought more land so they needed more slaves

Question 23

Name for things proposed by Senator Clay’s compromise of 1850?

Answer 23

#1. Allow California to enter the union as a slave free state
#2. discontinue the slave trade in the nation's capital 
#3. Let the new western territories decided the question of slavery for themselves 
#4. Strengthen the fugitive slave act

Question 24

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 24

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 25

What was the name for the events that led to the death of over 100 travelers from Arkansas and Missouri?

Answer 25

Mountain Meadows massacre

Question 26

What impact did the Supreme Court decision have concerning the Dred Scott case?

Answer 26

It had a horrible impact. It divided the issue on slavery even worse.

Question 27

What did John Brown hope to achieve by taking over the Harpers Ferry Arsenal?

Answer 27

He hoped to arm the African-Americans and have a slave rebellion

Question 28

Who led the military efforts to capture John Brown and his men?

Answer 28

Col. Robert E Lee

Question 29

Describe Arkansas’s growth (economy) status just prior to the Civil War

Answer 29

Arkansas’s economy was based on factories and farming