5. The idea that the people of a territory could vote whether the state would be a slave or free state is known as... Missouri Compromise
Fugitive Slave Act
Popular Sovereignty
Compromise of 1850

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.