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