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AR History Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The ___ Mountains run east to west from Little Rock through the western half of the state. | Ouachita |
| Arkansas Post was attacked in 1783 by Chickasaw Indians led by the Scotsman ___. | James Colbert |
| In 1763, as a result of the Peace of Paris, Arkansas along with the rest of France's colonial possessions along the Mississippi were transferred to ___. | Spain |
| The Mississippi Alluvial Plain of eastern Arkansas is most commonly known as ___. | the Delta |
| The major fault line which is centered in southeastern Missouri and which runs to Marked Tree, Arkansas, is the ___. | New Madrid Fault |
| The White River, Illinois River, and Fourche la Fave are all tributaries of the ___. | The Mississippi River |
| An unsuccessful effort to restart French colonial efforts in Arkansas (and Louisiana) was associated in the 1720s with Scottish financier ___. | John Law |
| The area which became Arkansas Territory was originally part of what major land acquisition by the United States from France in 1803? | Louisiana Purchase |
| The Quapaws are a Sioux tribe that were settled in eastern Arkansas at the time of first contact with European settlers. They are also known as the ___. | Downstream people |
| The ___ Indians lived in the southwestern part of Arkansas in individual homesteads during the colonial period. | Caddo |
| The mounds at Plum Bayou east of Little Rock are wrongly attributed to what native people of Central America? | The Toltec |
| “Arkansas” is derived from an Indian word meaning ___. | The "downstream people" |
| The first European expedition to make inroads into Arkansas was led by the conquistador ___. | DeSoto |
| What river defines the state's eastern boundary? | The Mississippi River |
| The eastern part of Arkansas, bordering on the Mississippi River, is generally known by what common name? | The Delta |
| The Salem Plateau, Springfield Plateau and Boston Mountains are all subregions of ___. | The Ozark Mountains |
| This tribe of Indians frequently killed any white hunters who trespassed on land they claimed as their own in western Arkansas. | Osage |
| Arkansas came to be part of the French province of Louisiana with the claim laid down by French aristocrat ___. | LaSalle |
| The ‘bootheel’ region carved out of northeastern Arkansas and given to Missouri came about largely through the work of planter _________________. | J. Hardeman Walker |
| The battles of Jenkins’ Ferry, Poison Springs, and Marks’ Mills all center around the Union’s occupation of ___ during the late period of the Civil War. | Camden |
| Opposition to the Civil War in the Ozarks was most clearly reflected by the organization of ____________________. | Peace Societies |
| The “carpetbag” governor who between 1868 and 1872 supported public education, railroads, and civil rights, but was associated with corruption, was ___________________________. | Powell Clayton |
| People from Arkansans who supported the Union cause during the Civil War were called ___. | Scalawags |
| D. P Upham in Woodruff County (Augusta) organized strong resistance to the KKK. | True |
| Arkansans voted to hold a convention to determine whether to secede from the Union in February 1861, after the election of whom to the presidency of the United States? | Abraham Lincoln |
| The “Gettysburg of the West,” where Union troops successfully penetrated northwest Arkansas and defeated a larger Confederate force in March 1862, was the battle of- | Pea Ridge |
| Steamboats operated on all the larger rivers in Arkansas a within a few years after the first steamboat arrived in Little Rock 1822. | True |
| The judge who presided over the Federal District Court in Fort Smith from 1875-1896 and ordered many hangings was ___. | Isaac Parker |
| The territorial delegate and later senator from Arkansas who assumed leadership over the Democratic faction in Arkansas was ___. | Abrose Servier |
| The lawyer-poet-Masonic scholar who led Arkansas Whigs from the 1830s to 1855 was __________________________. | Albert Pike |
| By 1860 the largest concentration of slaves in Arkansas was in the ____. | cotton plantations |
| Prior to the Civil War ___ was established by Presbyterians as a private college near Fayetteville, Arkansas. | Cane Hill College |
| The chairman of the secession convention in Little Rock in 1861 was ___. | David Walker |
| The paper begun by printer William Woodruff at the Arkansas Post in November 1819, which was the oldest newspaper west of the Mississippi River until its demise in 1991, was ________________________. | The Arkansas Gazette |
| In 1862, ____ was placed in overall command of Confederate forces in Arkansas, with Hindman as his second-in-command. | Theophilus Holmes |
| Unionists who moved into Arkansas during Reconstruction were called Carpetbaggers. | True |
| During his term of office, from 1928 to 1933, Governor ____ advocated hard work and self-help as ways to solve the problems of the depression. | Harvey Parnell |
| One of governor George Donaghey's chief accomplishments was the completion of ___. | the new state capitol |
| The Arkansas oil boom of 1920 was centered in the ____ area. | El Dorado |
| Governor Jeff Davis used racist attitudes to attract popular support, even going so far as to support higher education for blacks. | False |
| The Republican Party maintained a virtual monopoly on power in Arkansas between 1900 and 1920. | False |
| ____ was a federal official who temporarily withheld federal relief in 1935 because the Arkansas government would not provide any financial support for education or assistance to the aged, sick, and blind. | Harry hopkins |
| The first woman elected in her own right to the United States Senate was Hattie Caraway. | True |
| A major race riot broke out in October 1919 in the east Arkansas community of ___. | Elaine |
| A food riot gained national attention in 1931 after farmers in what Arkansas community forced local merchants to give them food? | England |
| The Brough administration in 1918 succeeded in passing a prohibition law, known popularly as the ___. | Bone-Dry Law |
| Governor ____, elected in 1920, strongly opposed lynching and appointed some women to state jobs. | Thomas C. McRae |
| The Separate Coach Law was used in the election of 1906 to exclude black voters, disenfranchising them. | False |
| Governor Harvey Parnell was criticized by Arkansans for his costly ___. | road plan |
| Men worked through the Anti-Saloon League to prohibit alcohol; Women worked through the ___. | Women's Christian Temperance Union |
| Johnny Cash, a famous country singer from Arkansas, was raised in the Dyess community during the Depression. | True |
| In 1882 Opie Read founded ___,a comic newspaper, criticizing life in Arkansas at the time. | The Arkansas Traveler |
| In the decade after the Civil War overproduction of cotton at a time of bad credit led to the establishment of the agricultural practice of ___. | sharecropping |
| What Arkansas politician within a two-week period in 1913 held the office of Congressman, governor-elect, and U.S. Senator? | Joseph T. Robinson |
| Chester Lauck and Norris Goff won fame playing folksy storekeepers in Pine Ridge, Arkansas, named ___. | Lum and Abner |
| The discovery of oil in south Arkansas early in the 20th century led to an economic boom, especially associated with the town of ___ | El Dorado |
| The Dyess Community, a model community established during the Depression, was the boyhood home of nationally-known country singer ___. | Johnny Cash |
| Early in the Depression the desperation of eastern Arkansas farmers became evident with the outbreak of rioting, due to a shortage of Red Cross food vouchers, in the town of ___. | England |
| Harvey Couch and Hamilton Moses were prominent businessmen largely responsible for the creation of | Arkansas Power and Light |
| Flooding along what major river led to the submergence of much of Arkansas in 1927, with tremendous economic and physical losses and hundreds of deaths? | Mississippi River |
| The Southern Tenant Farmers Union was established in the Arkansas Delta during the Depression largely through the work of reformers such as ___. | HR Mitchell |
| The most prominent World War II figure born in Arkansas was ___. | Douglas MacArthur |
| The first woman elected in her own right to a full-term in the United States Senate was Arkansan ___. | Hattie Caraway |
| The Revenue Stabilization Act was passed during the tenure of Governor Ben Laney in order to ensure that Arkansas maintained ___. | a balanced budget |
| ___ started a small five and dime store in Bentonville in 1950 and eventually developed a nationwide discount retail chain worth billions of dollars. | Sam Walton |
| Clinton was defeated in 1980 by Republican businessman ___. | Frank White |
| Riots among Vietnamese refugees at Fort Chaffee troubled Clinton's first term. | False |
| The Arkansas Congressman from Kensett who achieved prominence as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee overseeing all tax law, writing the bill creating the Medicare system in the mid-1960s, and being forced to leave office due to scandal in the | Wilbur D. Mills |
| The chief reform associated with Governor Ben T. Laney's tenure was the | Revenue Stabilization Act |
| In 1966 ____ became the first Republican governor since Reconstruction | Winthrop Rockefeller |
| The failed Arkansas land deal which came back to haunt Bill and Hillary Clinton during their first years in the White House concerned ___. | Whitewater |
| Returning from World War II, Governor _____ led an effort to modernize the state in 1948. | Sid McMath |
| The Clinton Presidential Library and Museum is located in Hope, Arkansas. | False |
| Jim Guy Tucker, after his conviction on income tax charges and fraud, was expelled from the governor's office by lieutenant governor, Republican ___. | Mike Huckabee |
| In the 1950s the episode of school desegregation in Arkansas that gained worldwide attention was at ___. | Little Rock Central High School |
| ___ made an unsuccessful bid for the presidency of the United States in the 2008 election, but was subsequently appointed U.S. Secretary of State. | Hillary Clinton |
| Orval Faubus' early record as governor can be characterized as liberal and progressive. | True |
| L.C. and Daisy Bates operated a statewide newspaper for blacks beginning during World War II. This paper was the ___. | State Press |
| Governor Sid McMath was one of the moderate democrats who succeeded Republican Governor Winthrop Rockefeller as governor. | False |
| Two Japanese-American relocation camps were established in Arkansas in the 1940s. One was at Jerome. The other was at Chaffee. | False |
| J. William Fulbright was defeated in the Senate race of 1974 by the incumbent governor of Arkansas, ___. | Dale Bumpers |
| Founded in 1935 as a chicken processor in Springdale, ___, employed more than 100,000 people and had become one of the largest meat processing companies in the world by the end of the twentieth century. | Tyson Foods |
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