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Short Response
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What is the leader of a state or territory?
Governor
100
Who became the first governor of the Arkansas Territory?
James Miller
100
What was written to protect important rights including the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press?
The Bill of Rights
100
What direction would you want to travel to go from the Missouri Territory to the Arkansas Territory?
South
100
How did people come to the Arkansas Territory?
By land and by river.
200
What is a place where the goverment meets?
Capital
200
Who were the two explorers who explored the Louisiana Purchase?
Lewis and Clark
200
What caused the United States to grow?
The Louisiana Purchase
200
Why must boundaries on the map be established after 1803?
That was the year that the Louisiana Purchase was made.
200
Why did the capital have to move to Little Rock?
Flooding.
300
What is a person who settles on land without permission?
Squatter
300
Who was the Indian woman who helped explorer's Lewis and Clark?
Sacagawea
300
How did Arkansas's territorial goverment prepare the territory for statehood?
It made sure goverment positions were elected and not chosen.
300
Why did Thomas Jefferson want to purchase New Orleans from France?
Jefferson was concerned that the French would close the port of New Orleans to them.
400
What is a movement from one place to another?
Migration
400
Who was the delegate elected president of the Second Continental Congress?
Thomas Jefferson
400
What forced all Indians west of the Mississippi River?
Indian Removal Act
400
Why did many new people move to Arkansas after the American Revolution?
They were looking for good and cheap farmland.
500
What is a fight to remove a goverment from power?
Revolution
500
Who was the ruler of France who offered the United States all of its land in North America, not just New Orleans?
Napoleon Bonaparte
500
What town was built to keep the Osage and Cherokee from fighting?
Fort Smith