What was the number one cash crop grown during the antebellum period?
a. Green Beans
b. Soybeans
c. Cotton
d. Corn
What is c. Cotton
100
Who was the Mexican-American War fought between?
What is Mexico and America
100
Who invented the cotton gin?
a. Eli Whitney
b. Eli Manning
c. Thomas Booker
d. David Bowie
What is a. Eli Whitney
100
How did the first printing press arrive in Arkansas?
a. By plane
b. By steamboat
c. By two canoes
d. By stagecoach
What is C. By two canoes
100
Which state joined the union as a free state at the same time as Arkansas?
a. Mississippi
b. Minesota
c. Michigan
d. California
What is c. Michigan
200
What was the main source of income in Arkansas's economy during the Antebellum Period?
a. Industry
b. Agriculture
c. Trade
d. Stagecoach building
What is b. Agriculture
200
Where was the first territorial capital of Arkansas located?
a. Little Rock
b. Fort Smith
c. Washington
d. Arkansas Post
What is D. Arkansas Post
200
Who became know as the best knife fighter in the south?
a. Major J.J. Anthony
b. James Bowie
c. Colonel John Wilson
d. None of the above
What is b. James Bowie
200
Who was an abolitionist that wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
a. Harriet Tuggman
b. Martin Luther King Jr.
c. Dred Scott
d. Harriet Beacher Stowe
What is d. Harriet Beacher Stowe
200
Which act ended the resitrictions of the Missouri Compromise and The Compromise of 1850?
a. Arkansas Act
b. Texas-Mexico Act
c. Texas-Oklahoma Act
d. Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is d, Kansas Nebraska Act
300
What was a fictitious story of a man was trying to find his way back to civilization?
a. The traveling band
b. The Arkansas Traveller
c. The backwood journal
d. City Bound
What is B. The Arkansas Traveller
300
Who was named the first territorial governor of the Arkansas Territory?
a. Henry Conway
b. James Miller
c. Ambrose Sevier
d. Robert Crittenden
What is B. James Miller
300
What was the name of the two Arkansas newspapers?
What is Arkansas Gazette and Arkansas Advocate
300
The word Antebellum means_______________________.
What is Before the war
300
Who was the most famous duel in Arkansas fought between?
a. Robert Crittenden and James Miller
b. Robert Miller and Henry Conway
c. James Miller and Henry Conway
d. Robert Crittenden and Henry Conway
What is D. Robert Crittenden and Henry Conway
400
What was the name of the first steamboat to travel up the Mississippi River and in what year?
What is Eagle 1822
400
Who was named the first territorial secretary of the new Arkansas Territory?
What is Robert Crittenden
400
Which political party dissolved as a result of disagreement over slavery?
a. Republicans
b. No nothing party
c. Whigs
d. Democratic
What is c. Whig
400
What journey did the Indian Removal Act send the Native Americans down?
What is Trail of Tears
400
Who replaced Conway as a trerritorial delegate after he was killed in the duel?
a. Ambrose Sevier
b. Robert Crittenden
c. James Miller
d. James Conway
What is a. Ambrose Sevier
500
What was the name of the Supreme Court Case that said slaves were not citizens and didn't have right?
What is Dred Scott Case
500
Name the two Arkansas cities that became supply centers for people on their way to the California Gold Rush.
What is Fort Smith and Van Buren
500
In what year did Arkansas become a state?
What is 1836
500
List 3 ways slaves showed resistance to their masters.
What is Tracking in mud, Slow work, Breaking tools
500
What three familes were a part of the political group called the family?