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The history of Arkansas began millennia ago when humans first crossed into North America. Many tribes used Arkansas as their hunting lands but the main tribe was the Quapaw, who settled in the Arkansas River delta upon moving south from Illinois.
The Arkansas Territory was a territory of the United States from July 4, 1819, to June 15, 1836, when the final extent of Arkansas Territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Arkansas. [2] Arkansas Post was the first territorial capital (1819–1821) and Little Rock was the second (1821–1836).
Arkansaw Territory (renamed Arkansas Territory, circa 1822) [a] was split from the Missouri Territory on July 4, 1819. [4] As territorial secretary from 1819 to 1829, Robert Crittenden served as acting governor whenever the appointed governor was not in the state.
Arkansas (/ ˈ ɑːr k ən s ɔː / ⓘ AR-kən-saw [c]) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. [9] [10] It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma to the west.
Arkansas governors served two-year terms until a referendum lengthened the term to four years, effective with the 1986 general election. Statewide elections are held two years after presidential elections. Some of Arkansas's counties have two county seats, as opposed to the usual one seat. The arrangement dates back to when travel was extremely ...
Arkansas was the only state in the 1992 presidential election to be won by a majority of the popular vote; [10] Bill Clinton, its governor at the time, won Arkansas with 53.21 percent of the vote. [11] Since Clinton won re-election in 1996, however, the state has voted consistently for the Republican Party. [12]
The history of slavery in Arkansas began in the 1790s, before the Louisiana Purchase made the land territory of the United States. [1] Arkansas was a slave state from its establishment in 1836 until the Thirteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1865. [1]
"The Arkansas Traveler" (also known as "The Arkansaw Traveler") is an American folk song first published by Mose Case, a humorist and guitarist from New York, in 1863. The song was based on the composition "The Arkansas Traveller" by Sandford C. Faulkner and is the Arkansas official historic song .