This study guide covers Chapters 5 and 6 of a unit on Arkansas history. Chapter 5 discusses the four prehistoric periods of native Arkansans - Paleo, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian - and the tools, food, dwellings, and cultures of groups like the Osage, Quapaw, and Caddo tribes. Chapter 6 focuses on European exploration of Arkansas, including the expeditions of De Soto, Marquette and Joliet, and La Salle. It also discusses the establishment of the Arkansas Post by De Tonti and its daily life, and the two revolutions that impacted the Post.

1. Arkansas History
Unit Two Study Guide (Chapters 5-6)
Chapter 5
Paleo, Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian
What is the difference between history and prehistory?
What are the four pre historic native Arkansans?
Know what tools/ resources the pre historic native Arkansans used.
Know what crop/foods did the pre historic native Arkansans have
Know what the dwellings were like for pre historic native Arkansans.
Osage, Quapaw,Caddo
Know what tools/ resources the historic native tribes had
Know what their dwellings were like
Know what area of Arkansas they inhabited
Explain the culture of one of the historic native tribes (ESSAY)

2. Name the most important change in the Woodland tradition.
What was the relationship of the Osages to northwest Arkansas?
Identify three reasons why salt was very important to the Caddo’s way of life.
CH. 6
Know the reasons the European Explorers had a low opinion of the Native American
population.
Hernando de Soto, Jacques Marquette/Louis Joliet, Robert de la Salle
Know the goals of each of their expeditions
What were the accomplishments/failures of their expeditions
Explain the issures De Soto and his men had crossing the Miss River into Arkansas
Be able to explain the story of Casqui and De Soto (Essay)
How did De Soto deal with the Indians?
What did Marquette and Joliet realize about their journey on the Mississippi River?
Who was La Salle’s lieutenant ? What role did he have with the Arkansas Post?

3. What did La Salle inform the Indians he met in Arkansas? How did he complete the
bargain?
Explain why he went back to France and why he never made it back to the Miss River
Know the role of De Tonti in the establishing of the Arkansas Post
Explain John Law’s role in attracting French colonists to the Arkansas Post
Know about the daily life at the Post. (How they lived, Slavery, Marriages) ESSAY
Know the two Revolutions that affected the Arkansas Post.l