This changed after the ConfederacyДЄttacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina, and President Lincoln called for troops to put down the rebellion. The delegates elected were conditional unionist in sympathy, rather than outright secessionist. The referendum passed, but the majority of This was shown by the results of state convention referendum in February 1861. States of the Upper South, was mixed regarding secession, but it was also opposed to Federal coercion of seceding states. At the beginning of 1861, the population and sentiment of Arkansas, like several The arsenal be turned over to state authority. The small Federal garrison was forced to evacuate after a demand by Arkansas Governor Rector that State Militia forces seized the Federal Arsenal in Little Rock before ArkansasДЄctually voted to secede. When states began seceding from the Union. As a result, it did not have early military significance The Civil War, and provided a source of troops, supplies, and military and political leaders for the fledgling country.В AntebellumДЄrkansas was still a wilderness in most areas, rural and sparsely populated. In 1861, Arkansas was a part of the Confederate States of America during On the eve of the American Civil War (1861-1865) in 1860,Д®nslaved African Americans numbered 111,115 people, just over 25% of the state's population. Planters brought with them or imported slaves from the Upper South. This was where enslaved labor was used most extensively, as Of men assembled here, where they were formed into the first Regiment of Arkansas Cavalry.Д¬otton culture in the east in lands of the Mississippi Delta. On the state to furnish one regiment of cavalry and one battalion of infantry to join the United States Army. War began in 1846, Washington became a rendezvous for volunteer troops. Stream of volunteers from Arkansas and the southeastern states flowed through the town toward the Texas battle fields. Suggests Sam Houston and his compatriots planned the revolt in a tavern at Washington in 1834. Proximity of the city of Washington to the Texas border involved the town in the Texas Revolution of 1835вЂ“36. In aiding Texas in its war for independence from Mexico it sent troops and materials to Texas to help fight the war. Of the colonists' customs and had generally good relations with their neighbors. Were considered civilized by Anglo-European settlers during the colonial and early federal period because they adopted many The Five Civilized Tribes were the five Native American nations-the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole-that The Five Civilized Tribes also inhabited ArkansasДuring its territorial period, but were forced westward under U.S. In Arkansas before moving west were the Quapaw, Caddo, and Osage nations. Of the Illinois tribe's name for the Quapaw people, who lived downriver from them. The early Spanish or French explorers of the state gave it its name, which is believed to be a phonetic spelling Arkansas is one of several US states formed from the territory purchased from Napoleon Bonaparte in the Louisiana The Mississippi River in 1542 after almost a year traversing the southern part of the state in search of gold and a passage Plantation economy that was heavily reliant on slave labor.ДЄrkansas was the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, a veteran of Pizarro's conquest of Peru who died near Lake Village on Upon gaining statehood in 1836, Arkansas began to prosper under a Purchase in 1803 and became Arkansas Territory in 1819. WhatД«egan as a rough wilderness inhabited by trappers and hunters became incorporated into the United States as part of the Louisiana Gave the territory its name, a corruption of Akansea, which is a phonetic spelling of the Illinois word for the Quapaw. The main tribe was the Quapaw who settled in Arkansas River delta upon moving south from Illinois. Many tribes used Arkansas as their hunting lands but Began millennia ago when humans initially crossed into North America.

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