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french explores Louis jolliet and father Jacques Marquette descend the Mississippi river and down to the Arkansas river.
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A group of 1,300 starving whites and blacks leave Arkansas post after john laws scheme to develop the Mississippi valley collapse.
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America Purchased Louisianan from France.
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The Quapaw cede there land between the red and Arkansas river.
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Arkansas detaches from the Missouri territory and becomes its own territory.
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the capital moved from the Arkansas post to Little Rock
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the first steam boat to ever Ascend the Arkansas river.
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Congress separated Arkansas from the Indians territory.
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Mike Huckabee is elected Governor
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Bentonville based Wal-Mart is identified as the world's largest corporation.