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Arizona was the only western territory to join the confederacy. It was also the scene of the farthest civil war battle fought on the western frontier.
The battle was won by the Federals, who then seized the territory's capital and took Arizona out of the war.
Arizona joined because it was the only far west territory to allow slavery. Slaveholders were some of the first to migrate to the territory to find fresh soil for cotton growing as the soil in most of the deep south had become depleted from over planting cotton on it.
The settlers needed their slaves to pick the cotton, and the cotton was a major revenue source for the south. So Arizona naturally aligned itself with the other cotton states.
But the union intervention came from the newly found gold and silver strikes that came afterward, not the cotton. Both sides needed all the gold and silver they could get to finance the war, and that's what led to the decisive battle early in the war.
A few years later, Abraham Lincoln created the Idaho territory as part of the union as soon as gold and silver were discovered there. Lincoln's immediate creation of a territory and it's acceptance into the union headed off another possible Arizona from occurring. The Idaho strikes proved to the the richest of all in the west, and did finance most of the Union war effort.
Cotton is still being grown in Arizona today. But the gold and sliver have mostly played out in both states.
Given the history we need to cease cotton production in AZ as it stands as a constant reminder of the slave holding past.
STOP COTTON NOW.....STOP COTTON NOW! C'mon, chant along with me..... STOP COT...... oh forget it, it doesn't rhyme...
2) 2 Confederate monuments vandalized in Arizona
The Confederate soldier monument at the state Capitol was fancied by Rebecca McHood as a "participation trophy" on Tuesday evening. Enraged by President Donald Trump's claim that "bad people" on both sides were to blame for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, the 37-year-old headed straight for the Confederate memorial at the state Capitol.
Across the bottom, she strung a second-place participation banner. Across the top, she hung a ribbon that said, "You lost, get over it."
and why do you ask? They have one because at some point they wanted to honor him. I have no idea the purpose of your post and I am not sure many others do. Why is there a school in the Dallas area named Cristy McAuliffe? we could ask a stupid question on why a million times and probably never get an honest answer because there is none
Please boycott and do NOT use U.S. $1.00, $20.00, $50.00 and $100.00 bills as they depict slave owners on them. Please send them to me and I will dispose of them properly.
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