Arkansas History - Chapter 8 Vocab - Territorial Power

123456789101112131415
Across
  1. 1. the city that is the seat of government
  2. 3. the political party formed in opposition to Jackson's Democratic Party
  3. 4. Cherokee's leader, also know as George Gist, best known for the development of the written Cherokee language
  4. 6. one who is appointed to represent one nation to another
  5. 7. the name given, because of its shape, to the land south that makes up the Missouri/Arkansas border
  6. 9. another name for the "Family," the Democratic power elite in territorial and early Arkansas
  7. 10. areas of land having been measured and divided into townships or sections
  8. 11. a pert-time citizen army
  9. 13. having destroyed or ended totally
  10. 15. the building that houses a state's legislator
Down
  1. 2. measurements of land equal to thirty-six square miles
  2. 5. wheel made of horizontal blades powered by a steam engine that moved steamboats up and down America's rivers
  3. 8. a fight between two men in response to an insult, to settle a matter of honor
  4. 9. one elected to represent others
  5. 10. the practice of owning human beings as laborers
  6. 12. an agreement between the U.S. government and the Indian tribe defining ownership of the land
  7. 14. measurements of land equal to one square mile; there are thirty-six sections per town-ship