History Test 2

PCCA Arkansas History

May 6, 1861

Date that Arkansas seceded from the Union

Wild Bill Hickok

Sharpshooter for the Union in the Battle of Pea Ridge

Battle of Pea Ridge

A significant Civil War battle fought in Arkansas from March 7 to March 8, 1862, where Union forces defeated Confederate troops, securing control of Missouri. Confederates lost due to lack of supplies and exhausted troops.

Battle of Prairie Grove

A Civil War battle fought in Arkansas on December 7, 1862, where Union forces engaged Confederate troops, resulting in a tactical draw but strategic advantage for the Union. Confederates wanted to take Borden’s Farm

Thomas C Hindman

A Confederate general during the American Civil War, known for his leadership in the Trans-Mississippi Theater and his role in the Battle of Prairie Grove.

Brigadier General James G Blunt

Union general who played a key role in the Battle of Prairie Grove

Francis J Herron

Union general who commanded troops at the Battle of Prairie Grove, contributing to the Union's strategic success.

982

Loss of life from both NW Arkansas battles

Brigadier General Samuel R Curtis and Franz Sigel

Union generals who led forces at the Battle of Pea Ridge

Major General Earl Van Dorn and Sterling Price

Confederate generals who commanded forces at the Battle of Pea Ridge, opposing Union troops.

WestPoint Military Academy

Where all the Generals in the Battle of Pea Ridge on both sides went to school.

1865

End of the Civil War

Isaac Murphy

Only one to vote against Arkansas leaving the Union and placed as Governor of Arkansas when the Civil War ended. He rewrote the Arkansas constitution to outlaw slavery. 1st Republican Governor of Arkansas.

Gilded age

Brought new technology, womens' rights and a better economy

Sharecropper

A farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent in the form of a share of the crop produced.

Crop lines

The planters used these to have a legal claim to a portion of the crops that were planted on their land.

Railroads

Used to connect the nation and goods and people could be moved quickly. Helped grow cities that were near or on the rail lines.

Gilded Age

Railroads, Steel, Factories and Coal Mining were industries that characterized this time.

Mercantilism

Increases the power and wealth of a country through governmental control; traded furs, farming or other natural resources

Arkansas Delta

Where farmers began growing crops as the settled Arkansas

Hunters and Isolated Farmers

Settled the Ozarks

Coureur des Bois

Runner of the woods (Middle men between many of the French explorers and Native Americans

Calumet

a peace pipe

Michigan

Arkansas sister state: both entered the United States of America on June 15, 1836.

Powell Clayton

Youngest governor ever to be elected in Arkansas. He was 34.

Compromise of 1877

Rutherford B Hayes agreed to appoint a Democrat to his cabinet and then remove troops out of the south. Ended reconstruction in the south.

The Allies

France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, US

Jim Crow Laws

Kept Black people separate from whites. While it was thought to create a separate but equal society, it did not. People were treated based on the color of their skin.

Andrew Jackson

Abraham Lincoln’s Vice President