Help the passing date is tomorrow

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.

They had to go back and forth to the atlantic ocean and the pacific ocean to build the panama canal thats the best i can answer