Arkansas History Chapter 4 Review Part III Question Preview (ID: 35635)
From A Territory To A State.
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Which of the following is NOT an example of how progress came to the state of Arkansas in the 1840s and 1850s?
a) The first section of the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad opened for business in 1858.
b) The wave of growth and prosperity across the state boosted education, industry, farming, and even the state treasury.
c) diamonds and gold were discovered in the state, improving the economy
d) all of these
Disagreements over __________ in the Whig Party tore the organization part, and it quickly faded from the state.
a) sectionalism
b) slavery
c) leadership
d) segregation
Even though some Family members began pushing Arkansas to separate itself from the Union, most Arkansans were against such a drastic move.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)
Who became the Family's newest leaders after the founding members died?
a) Robert W. Johnson and Governor Elias Conway
b) James Miller and Robert Crittenden
c) Governor William Fulton and Archibald Yell
d) Ambrose Sevier and Henry Conway
Which of the following was NOT a way that slaves would rebel or resist their condition?
a) break hoes, plows, or other tools
b) costing their owners money, by performing farming work or chores slowly
c) by escaping and taking a few days off to visit friends or family members on nearby plantations
d) by sueing their masters in court for mistreatment
Which of the following is NOT true of slavery in Arkansas?
a) Arkansas slave population expanded very quickly in the Antebellum period
b) From 1830 to 1840, the number of slaves jumped from just fewer than 5,000 to nearly 20,000
c) A majority of slaveowners had more than 20 slaves, with a small amount owning between one and four
d) The states highest population of slaves was in the Delta
Which of the following describes chattel slavery?
a) being enslaved was a lifelong condition
b) the slave was considered the personal proptery of his or her owner
c) the slave could be bought and sold like any other object
d) all of these
Which of the following was NOT an effect of the invention of the cotton gin?
a) The machine could clean 50 pounds of cotton per day instead of the 1 pound per day a laborer could clean by hand.
b) cotton farming became a much more profitable business
c) As the cotton fields expanded, the demand for slaves decreased.
d) Soon, wealthy families and individuals began purchasing huge tracts of land to profit from cotton.
Who invented the cotton gin in 1793?
a) Eli Whitney
b) George Washington Carver
c) James Miller
d) William Woodruff
What was the main focus of the majority of people in antebellum Arkansas?
a) agriculture
b) industry
c) manufacturing
d) politics
What was the biggest cash crop in the Antebellum period?
a) rice
b) corn
c) tobacco
d) cotton
What effect did the California gold rush have on the state of Arkansas?
a) many Arkansans began perparing to make the trip to California
b) thousands of people passed through the state
c) it helped Arkansas shed its frontier status as people passed through
d) all of these
Who was the sitting congressman and former Arkansas governor who led one of the companies from the state in the Battle of Buena Vista and was killed in the battle?
a) Archibald Yell
b) Colonel Sanford Faulkner
c) Colonel J.J. Anthony
d) Major George Wilson
Arkansans in Van Buren and Fort Smith decided to promote the area as a major supply center and launch point for those headed to California in search of gold from the east
a) True
b) False
c)
d)
What was the belief that it was the natural right of the US to controll all of the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean?
a) Natural Rights
b) Popular Sovereignty
c) Manifest Destiny
d) Expansionsim
How many men from Arkansas traveled to Mexico to join in the fighting of the Mexican-American War?
a) 100
b) 900
c) 2,000
d) 10,000
Who created the Legend of the the Arkansas Traveler, a fictitious story about a man who got lost in the backcountry while looking for his way back to the city?
a) Colonel Sanford Faulkner
b) Major George Wilson
c) Colonen J.J. Anthony
d) General Archibald Yell
Who wrote fictional stories about life in Arkansas, such as the short story The Big Bear of Arkansas?
a) Friedrich Gerstacker
b) Charles Fent Noland
c) Thomas Bangs Thorpe
d) George Featherstonhaugh
Who was a German immigrant who wrote about hunting, lawlessness, social conditions, and religion in early Arkansas?
a) Friedrich Gerstacker
b) Charles Fent Noland
c) Thomas Bangs Thorpse
d) George Featherstonhaugh
Who was and Arkansan who wrote about backwoods culture in the Ozarks in The Psirit of the Times, a New York Newspaper
a) Friedrich Gerstacker
b) Charles Fent Noland
c) Thomas Bangs Thorpe
d) George Featherstonhaugh
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