Arkansas History - Chapter 8 Vocab - Territorial Power

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