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 The Federal government declared a new U.S. Arizona Territory, consisting of the western half of earlier New Mexico Territory, in [[Washington, D.C.]], on February 24, 1863.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bates |first=Al |title=Arizona becomes a territory |url=https://apnews.com/article/224920232a414a638efa0399ac68a269/ |url-status=live |website=AP News |date=April 14, 2019 |access-date=December 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331135306/https://apnews.com/article/224920232a414a638efa0399ac68a269/ |archive-date=March 31, 2022}}</ref> These new boundaries would later form the basis of the state. The first territorial capital, Prescott, was founded in 1864 following a gold rush to central Arizona.<ref>{{cite book|last=Henson|first=Pauline|title=Founding a Wilderness Capital, Prescott, A. T., 1864|date=1965|publisher=Northland Press|location=Flagstaff, AZ|pages=passim|lccn=65-17578}}</ref> The capital was later [[Arizona Territory capitals|moved to Tucson, back to Prescott, and then to its final location in Phoenix]] in a series of controversial moves as different regions of the territory gained and lost political influence with the growth and development of the territory.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Arroyo Rodriguez |first1=Nadine |title=Did You Know: Capital Of Arizona Moved 4 Times Before Settling In Phoenix |url=https://kjzz.org/content/49056/did-you-know-capital-arizona-moved-4-times-settling-phoenix |website=kjzz |access-date=January 9, 2019 |date=September 26, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114044843/https://kjzz.org/content/49056/did-you-know-capital-arizona-moved-4-times-settling-phoenix |archive-date=January 14, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
-Although names including "Gadsonia", "Pimeria", "Montezuma" and "Arizuma" had been considered for the territory,<ref>{{cite web |title=Preserving Cultural and Historic Resources{{snd}}A Conservation Objective of the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan |url=http://www.pima.gov/cmo/sdcp/Archives/reports/Cult.html |website=pima.gov |access-date=November 13, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100703055719/http://www.pima.gov/cmo/sdcp/Archives/reports/Cult.html |archive-date=July 3, 2010 }}</ref> when 16th President [[Abraham Lincoln]] signed the final bill, it read "Arizona", and that name was adopted. ([[Montezuma (mythology)|Montezuma]] was not derived from the [[Aztec]] emperor, but was the sacred name of a divine hero to the [[Pima people]] of the [[Gila River Valley]]. It was probably considered{{snd}}and rejected{{snd}}for its sentimental value before Congress settled on the name "Arizona".) {{Citation needed|date=June 2023}}
+Although names including "Gadsonia", "Pimeria", "Montezuma" and "Arizuma" had been considered for the territory,<ref>{{cite web |title=Preserving Cultural and Historic Resources{{snd}}A Conservation Objective of the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan |url=http://www.pima.gov/cmo/sdcp/Archives/reports/Cult.html |website=pima.gov |access-date=November 13, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100703055719/http://www.pima.gov/cmo/sdcp/Archives/reports/Cult.html |archive-date=July 3, 2010 }}</ref> when 16th President Abraham Lincoln signed the final bill, it read "Arizona", and that name was adopted. ([[Montezuma (mythology)|Montezuma]] was not derived from the [[Aztec]] emperor, but was the sacred name of a divine hero to the [[Pima people]] of the [[Gila River Valley]]. It was probably considered{{snd}}and rejected{{snd}}for its sentimental value before Congress settled on the name "Arizona".) {{Citation needed|date=June 2023}}
 [[Brigham Young]], leader of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] in [[Salt Lake City]] in [[Utah]], sent [[Mormons]] to Arizona in the mid- to late 19th century. They founded [[Mesa, Arizona|Mesa]], [[Snowflake, Arizona|Snowflake]], [[Heber-Overgaard, Arizona|Heber]], [[Safford, Arizona|Safford]], and other towns. They also settled in the [[Phoenix Valley]] (or "Valley of the Sun"), [[Tempe, Arizona|Tempe]], [[Prescott, Arizona|Prescott]], and other areas. The Mormons settled what became [[northern Arizona]] and northern New Mexico. At the time these areas were in a part of the former [[New Mexico Territory]].