Original sentence: "   The increase in state debt was difficult, as Arkansas and other states struggled with poverty in the postwar years, as the price of cotton fell."Arkansas created its first free public school system.An Arkansas legislator was assassinated and an attempt was made on Clayton's life.Clayton acted decisively to use the militia against Ku Klux Klan violence.Clayton and the Republicans accomplished much during the governor’s three-year administration.Clayton cancelled elections in numerous counties where political violence that had broken out.Clayton raised taxes to pay for needed changes in the state under his administration.He approved construction of levees to try to protect farmland, and approved state bonds to develop much-needed railroads in the state.He created a series of bonds, known as the Holford Bonds, and promissory notes, known as scrip, that were issued in great numbers to raise money.In the fall of 1868 violence broke out around the presidential election, as it did in many southern states.The administration and its supporters also formed the Arkansas Industrial University, the basis for the future University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Washington County).What would become the Arkansas School for the Deaf was established, and the Arkansas School for the Blind was relocated from Arkadelphia (Clark County) to Little Rock (Pulaski County)
Edited sentence: )  Clayton raised taxes to pay the increased salaries of officials in his administration and created a series of bonds, known as the Holford Bonds, and promissory notes, known as scrip, that were issued in great numbers to raise money.He approved construction of levees to try to protect farmland, and tried to develop much-needed railroads in the state.In 1870, Clayton cancelled elections in numerous counties, citing reports of political violence that had broken out.The increase in state debt was difficult as Arkansas and other states continued to be poor, as the price of cotton fell