arkansas

By ratbrainbasher

  • Arkansas settlement founded

    Arkansas Post founded as the first settlement along the Missisipi river.

  • Arkansas created

    Territory of Arkansas created.

  • arkansas is a state

    Arkansas becomes twenty-fifth state.

  • Slaves freed

    Arkansas gets rid of all the slaves.

  • Arkansas becomes Confederate

    Arkansas joins the Confederates.
  • Period: to

    War

    Huh! What is it good for? Absolutly nothin'!

  • Jim Crow law passed

    First Jim Crow law passed, segregating whites and blacks.

  • Prohibition starts

    State law banning liquor sales passed, does nothing to curb consumption.

  • mass flooding

    Over one fifth of Arkansas flooded by Mississippi river.

  • Hattie Caraway elected to senate

    Hattie Caraway becomes first woman to be elected to US senate.