THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
MISSOURI COMPROMISE OF 1820
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No
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Maybe
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Yes
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -A slave state, Arkansas became the ninth state to secede from the union and join the Confederate States of America. Today Arkansas ranks 27th among the 50 states in the area, but, except for Louisiana and Hawaii, it is the smallest state west of the Mississippi River.
Detailed explanation-2: -By 1860, Arkansas was home to more than 110, 000 slaves, and one in five white citizens was a slave owner. The majority of these held only a few slaves. Only twelve percent owned twenty or more slaves, the benchmark of “planter” status.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first people enslaved by Europeans entered what was to become Arkansas in about 1720, when settlers moved into the John Law colony on land given to them on the lower Arkansas River by the king of France.