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Arkansas becomes a Territory
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Period: to
Antebellum arkansas
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James Miller becomes the first governor of Arkansas
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Arkansas Post is named the territorial capital
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William Woodruff established the Arkansas Gazette
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Capital is moved to Little Rock
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George Izard became governor of Arkansas Territory
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Crittenden and Conway duel
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Political Warfare between the “Family “ and the Whigs began
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The Old State House was built and became the HQ for Arkansas’s Government
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Arkansas becomes the 25th state
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Banking Crisis in Arkansas
the bank got accused of coruption, the one bank's files mysteriously disapeared. these accusations cause the bank to close. -
The Wilson-Anthony Stabbing
wilson told anthony to sit down an anthony refuse so wilson came after antony then pulled his knife out an killed anthony. the outcome was tht wilson didnt get convicted of murder but was dropped from his position in the legislature. -
The Mexican American War
it was a war between the usa and mexico over texas, usa won and mexico accepted the rio gande as thier border. the owed us 18 million but we forgave thier debt -
The Song “The Arkansas Traveler” was established
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Compromise of 1850
was a package of five bills, passed in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War ( -
Memphis and Little Rock Rail Road opens
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Kansas Nebraska Act
created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory -
Abraham Lincoln is elected President
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Surrender of the Arsenal at Little Rock
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Civil War begins
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Arkansas Votes not secede from the Union
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Arkansas Joins the confederacy
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Battle of Pea Ridge
