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Conway was shot in less than 2 weeks.
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The Bank of Arkansas became the first bank to serve the needs of the state and to encourage new buisness activity. Many wealthy planters and government leaders were accused of wrongdoing in the bank scandal.
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The only recorded violent death on the floor of the Arkansas General Assembly occurred on December 4, 1837, in a knife brawl leaving state Representative Major Joseph J. Anthony of Randolph County dead at the hands of Speaker of the House Colonel John Wilson of Clark County, who was subsequently expelled and tried for murder. The Arkansas Gazette cited it as “another example of the barbarity of life in Arkansas,” lamenting how it “stained the history of the state.”
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In the end, The United States won the war.
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America was facing a battle over slavery. Southern politicians were unhappy about California's petition to enter the nation as a free state. Such an entry would disrupt the carefully planned balance.
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Freight and passengers could not travel between Hopefield ad Madison along the St. Francis River.
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The bill promoted the idea of "popular soverginity". The new act put an end to the previous restrictions created in the Missouri Compromise of 1850.
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