SECESSION & THE CIVIL WAR
The Civil War, or War Between the States, was fought between these two factions.
What are the Union and the Confederacy?
This dangerous type of conflict resolution was popular amongst gentlemen well into the 1800s.
What is dueling?
The end of the Civil War guaranteed an end to this institution.
What is slavery?
Enslaved Black people combined Christian faith and African tradition to create this type of music.
What are spirituals?
Young men who were slow to enlist in the army were sent this symbol of femininity.
What is a petticoat?
This myth tells of an Arkansas politician and a backwoods squatter finding common ground over a fiddle tune.
What is "The Arkansas Traveler"?
During Reconstruction, the majority of wealthy planters and businessmen belonged to this political party.
What is the Democrat Party?
Many Black Americans were forced into this bleak economic system, wherein farmers work the land of others in exchange for the share of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
Arkansas almost unanimously voted to secede from the Union, with the exception of this man.
Who is Isaac Murphy?
More than 2,000 separate tremors were recorded by this earthquake located at Crowley’s Ridge, between 1811-1812.
What is New Madrid?
The primary goal of Radical Reconstruction was to improve the economy and this institution.
What is public education?
This formerly enslaved woman became Little Rock’s first Black teacher, working in the school system for 70 years.
Who is Charlotte Stephens?
This group of people provided the bulk of Confederate uniforms, blankets, and bandages for soldiers, mostly worked by hand.
Who are women?
Early homesteaders in the 1800s were primarily this type of farmer.
What is Yeoman?
After the Civil War, Southern white men were granted the right to vote only if they could swear by this oath.
What is the iron-clad oath?
Black Americans were subject to this set of laws and measures that prevented them from accessing equal rights under the law.
What are Jim Crow laws?