Arkansas History - Chapter 8 Vocab - Territorial Power

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