By 1860 10 bills had been introduced into Congress ... The Confederate actions finally spurred the U.S. to act on a separate Arizona Territory. But the bill that passed Congress and that Abraham ...

local advocates for Arizona held another convention in Tucson in 1860. They even drafted a constitution for a new Territory of Arizona, which they defined as the land south of the line of latitude ...

which presents some logistical problems," Adams said. Arizona became its own territory in 1860 but the sparsity of people at the time, with the exception of Tucson, left statehood during the Civil ...

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ST. LOUIS, Sunday, June 17. The Tucson (Arizona) correspondent of the Republican says that Indian depredations continue in that part of the Territory, the Apaches having run off with the entire ...

Arizona, formerly part of the Territory of New Mexico, was organized as a separate territory on this day in 1863. The United States had acquired the region under the terms of the 1848 Treaty of ...

TONOPAH, AZ, UNITED STATES, October 8, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Old Arizona Territory Museum, a pioneering institution dedicated to preserving and celebrating ...

After 1853, what is now Arizona was incorporated as part of the New Mexico Territory. During the Civil War, the southern slice of the territory, including Tucson, declared its independence from ...