What happened shortly after Governor Rector’s proclamation that “the people of this commonwealth are freemen, not slaves, and will defend to the extremity their honor, lives, against Northern mendacity and usurpation?”
A. Arkansas voted to secede from the Union.
B. The Union army stormed the Little Rock arsenal and took control.
C. President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
D. Isaac Murphy was named provisional governor.