Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Following the Civil War, outlaws lkike ________________ roamed the country with
little fear of being caught.
a. | Jesse James | c. | Phillip Hickens | b. | Cherokee Bill | d. | Henry Starr |
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Which criminal, about to be hanged, said “this is as good a day to die as
any.”
a. | Mark Twain | c. | Cherokee Bill | b. | Belle Starr | d. | Jesse James |
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When were railroad tracks first laid in Arkansas?
a. | 1850s | c. | 1860s | b. | 1840s | d. | 1870s |
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Arkansas ist he number one ______________ producing state in the nation, growing
almost nine billion pounds each year.
a. | corne | c. | wheat | b. | cotton | d. | rice |
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The Women’s Christian Temperance Union joined wiht others trhoughout the
nation to stop the production and sale of ____________ .
a. | liquor | c. | tobacco | b. | marijuana | d. | soda pop |
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Whic U.S. president was responible for creating the Ozark National Forest and
the Arkansas National Forest, now known as the Ouachita National Forest?
a. | George Washington | c. | John F. Kennedy | b. | Theodore Roosevelt | d. | Abraham Lincoln |
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Which one of the following terms was NOT another name for Arkansas’s short
line railroads?
a. | trunk lines | c. | logging lines | b. | spur lines | d. | rail lines |
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Which industry was responsible for leaving many forested regions of Arkansas
nearly bare?
a. | mining | c. | railroad | b. | lumber | d. | farming |
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What was the name of the small milling town organized by the Grayson-McLeod
lumber company in the early 1900’s?
a. | Hot Springs | c. | Malvern | b. | Little Rock | d. | Graysonia |
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_______________ was named the official Arkansas State rock in 1967.
a. | Coal | c. | Bauxite | b. | Manganese | d. | Gold |
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Which of the following risks do miners face as a result of their jobs?
a. | Black Lung | c. | deadly gas pockets | b. | cave-ins | d. | all of these. |
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From 1880 until the middle of the 20th century, about how many people ware
hanged or lynched in Arkansas?
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Which country did the United States go to war with in the spring of 1898?
a. | England | c. | Germany | b. | Spain | d. | Poland |
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What outbreak caused the Arkansas State Board of Health to quarantine the
northeast part of the state?
a. | flu | c. | spinal meningitis | b. | smallpox | d. | hookworm |
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Arkansas began construciton on the new state capitol in the summer of 1899
using
a. | prisoners. | c. | Chinese workers. | b. | elephants. | d. | dynamite. |
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Matching
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a. | Isaac Charles Parker | d. | Pietro Bondini | b. | Jesse James | e. | Carrie A Nation | c. | Jay
Gould |
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outlaw believed to have had a hide out which is now under Beaver Lake.
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cunning northern railroad tycoon
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priest who helped establish Tontitiown in Washington County.
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prohibition leader who once lived in Eurka Springs
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named U.S. District Judge of the Western District of Arkansas in 1875
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a. | infamous | d. | incentive | b. | industiralist | e. | harassment | c. | Prohibition |
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gift or reware given to encourage good behavior
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22.
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well known with a bad reputation
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to repeatedly bother or persecute
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someone who financially invest in an industry
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to make alcohol illegal
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a. | exploit | d. | lynch | b. | fraternal | e. | pardon | c. | epidemic |
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brotherly organization
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to release from past events
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to take advantage of something
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outbreak of disease
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30.
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illegal hanging
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a. | Theodore Roosevelt | d. | 18th Amendment | b. | Woodrow Wilson | e. | 19th Amendment | c. | Jeff
Davis |
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20th Governor of Arkansas
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32.
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outlawed alcohol
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33.
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president during World War I
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34.
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women’s suffrage
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35.
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Conservationist and president
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