NATIVE AMERICANS
The name for this type of object, found through archaeology, helps modern people study and understand the life of Native American peoples.
What is artifact?
Christopher Columbus was hired by this country’s rulers to establish trade routes to the East Indies.
What is Spain?
It is thought that these cave-based artifacts served as a calendar for early Native peoples.
What are pictographs?
Arkansas became a state in this year.
What is 1836?
Native Americans were given this geographically false name by the explorer Christopher Columbus.
What are Indians?
The United States purchased this major swath of land from France in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
After the Louisiana Purchase, Thomas Jefferson hired these two explorers to chart out the Missouri River and beyond.
Who are Lewis & Clark?
The new Arkansas Constitution of 1874 provided women with this right.
What is the right to own property?
The US Government served these documents to Native Americans during the period of Indian Removal.
What are treaties?
This French settlement, founded by Henri de Tonti, was the first in Arkansas, and home to many French hunters and trappers.
The invention of this water vessel made travel and transport far more efficient, though not without risk of explosion.
What is the steamboat?
This road, funded by the federal government in the 1820s, was Arkansas’ first major road, running from Memphis to Little Rock.
What is the Military Road?
This Native American tribe was the first to meet Columbus, and within two years lost over half their population due to subjugation and maltreatment.
What is the Arawak?
Europeans seeking to conquer the New World were motivated by these three things.
What is Glory, God, & Gold?
The invention of this machine in 1793 made processing cotton far more efficient.
What is the cotton gin?
This Amendment to the Constitution granted citizenship to Black Americans.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?