Arkansas History Chapter 4 Review Part III

Test Description: From a Territory to a State

Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.

1) Who was a German immigrant who wrote about hunting, lawlessness, social conditions, and religion in early Arkansas?

2) Who was and Arkansan who wrote about backwoods culture in the Ozarks in The Psirit of the Times, a New York Newspaper

3) Who wrote fictional stories about life in Arkansas, such as the short story The Big Bear of Arkansas?

4) 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?

5) 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?

6) How many men from Arkansas traveled to Mexico to join in the fighting of the Mexican-American War?

7) 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?

8) 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

9) What effect did the California gold rush have on the state of Arkansas?

10) What was the main focus of the majority of people in antebellum Arkansas?

11) What was the biggest cash crop in the Antebellum period?

12) Who invented the cotton gin in 1793?

13) Which of the following was NOT an effect of the invention of the cotton gin?

14) Which of the following describes chattel slavery?

15) Which of the following is NOT true of slavery in Arkansas?

16) Which of the following was NOT a way that slaves would rebel or resist their condition?

17) Who became the Family's newest leaders after the founding members died?

18) Even though some Family members began pushing Arkansas to separate itself from the Union, most Arkansans were against such a drastic move.

19) Disagreements over __________ in the Whig Party tore the organization part, and it quickly faded from the state.

20) Which of the following is NOT an example of how progress came to the state of Arkansas in the 1840s and 1850s?


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