Arkansas from Purchase to Territory

By tad jones

  • slavery existed in all of the united states

  • The invention of the cotton gin made growing cotton extremely lucrative and recommitted the south to growing cotton.

    The invention of the cotton gin made growing cotton extremely lucrative and recommitted the south to growing cotton.

  • pictures or the map back in the days an early 1800 an late

    pictures or the map back in the days an early 1800 an late

  • Annoucent of Louisisna Purchase

  • Louis an Clark explorer begins

  • Expedition marks first 4th of july west of the mississippi by firing the keelbaot cannon and nameing ind. creek

  • corps of Discovery meet with repsentatives of the Oto and missour Indians

  • near present day sioux city iowa sgt charles floyd dies of a probable burst appendix

  • freindly council with yankton sioux held

  • all of the men attempt to drown a never before seen prairie dog out of its hole

    all of the men attempt to drown a never before seen prairie dog out of its hole

  • Confrontation with Teton Siouix who Demand one of the Expeditions baots as a toll to travle farther upriver.

  • US Census

    US Census

    census show the population of arkansa of a little more than a 1000 people

  • shocks began

    wnt on four almost four mouths tel march of 1812

  • newmadrid earthquake begins

  • orleans become a state and take the name of lousiana

  • veterans of the war get a bonus

  • the Missouri legislature divided it into two more counties, Arkansas County in the south and Lawrence County in the north.

  • the missuory legislature divided into two more countys

  • Arkansas County: Clark, Hempstead, and Pulaski.

  • henry schoolcraft entered arkansa and went through batesville

  • thomas nuttal starts in arkansa post

  • the U.S. census showed 14,273 white and black persons.Missouri applied to Congress for statehood. And asked the “boot heel” area be included, but did not include the five counties of Arkansas

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