What was the spoils system based upon? Loyalty
Monetary support
Economic need
Social gains

Loyalty.

It should be understood that spoil system can be described or explained as a situation whereby an individual is being compensated for the support he/she has rendered before.
For example, an elected governor that gives out contracts to the people that supported him during his campaign and election for their loyalty.

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.