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James Miller becomes the first govenor f Arkansas
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William Woodruff established the Arkansas Gazette
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Arkansas becomes a territory
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Period: to
Civil War
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Arkansas post is named the territorial capital
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Capital is moved to Litle Rock
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George Izard became governor of the Arkansas Territory
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Crittenden and Conway duel
Conway dies and his supporters formed a political alliance called the "Family."
Crittenden gained more enemiess -
Political Warfare between the “Family “and the Whigs began
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Arkansas becomes the 25th state
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The Old State House was built and became the HQ for Arkansas’s Government
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The Wilson-Anthony Stabbing
It started because of the banking controversy
Wison was convicted of murder and was dropped from his position in the legislature
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Banking Crisis in Arkansas
The two banks served the needs of wealthy planters across the state but soon citizens accused both banks of curruption. -
The Mexican-American War
The U.S. won the war anith the victory came the dream of "Manifest Destiny" and an enormous new piece of property called the Mexican Cession lands -
The Song “The Arkansas Traveler” was established
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The Compromist of 1850
Southern politicians were unhappy about the California's petition to enter the nation as a free state and Henry Clay suggested four possible acts, which Congress debated for almost nine months
-Allow California to enter the Union as a slave state
-Discontinue the slave trade (not slavery itself) in the nation's capital
-let the new western territories decide the question of slavery for themselves
-strengthen the fugitive slave act -
Kansas Nebraska Act
It created the states of Kansas and Nebraska and allowing popular sovereignty on the issue of slavery, thereby annulling the limitations on slavery previously established by the Missouri Compromise. -
President Lincoln is elected President
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Surrender of the Arsenal at Little Rock
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Arkansas votes do not secede the Union
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Civil War begins
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Arkansas joins the confederacy
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Memphis and Little Rock Rail Road opens
During the Civil War, the M&LR served as an important part of both Confederate and Union war efforts despite its middle section being incomplete. Prior to Federal occupation, the Confederate forces used the railroad’s machine shop at Hopefield to modernize rifles. The Confederates also frequently used the M&LR to transfer soldiers to Memphis
