Upon ratification the 14th amendment expanded civil rights protection

To “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves.

It has a lot of important invents that happend in history

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.