What helped create the fertile soils of the Arkansas Delta?
Correct answer(s):
- River-deposited sediment
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Arkansas Facts
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What major change reshaped Arkansas’s legal and labor systems after the Civil War?
Correct answer(s):
- The abolition of slavery
Which natural division covers much of southern Arkansas?
Correct answer(s):
- West Gulf Coastal Plain
Which labor systems became widespread in postwar Arkansas?
Correct answer(s):
- Tenant farming and sharecropping
What landform rises above the eastern Arkansas lowlands as a long, narrow belt of hills?
Correct answer(s):
- Crowley's Ridge
Which developments helped broaden Arkansas’s economy after its early agricultural period?
Correct answer(s):
- Railroads, timber, mining, and manufacturing
Which conclusion about Arkansas contains mountain country, river valleys, forests, wetlands, and is supported?
Correct answer(s):
- Arkansas contains mountain country, river valleys, forests, wetlands, and broad agricultural plains
How many African American students became known as the Little Rock Nine in 1957?
Correct answer(s):
- Nine
Which river drains a large part of northern and eastern Arkansas?
Correct answer(s):
- White River
What was the first capital of Arkansas Territory?
Correct answer(s):
- Arkansas Post
Where did Arkansas Territory move its capital in 1821?
Correct answer(s):
- Little Rock
In what year did Congress create Arkansas Territory?
Correct answer(s):
- 1819
How did the Arkansas region become part of the United States in 1803?
Correct answer(s):
- Through the Louisiana Purchase
What was Arkansas Post historically known as?
Correct answer(s):
- A French settlement and trading post
Whose Spanish expedition crossed the Arkansas region in the sixteenth century?
Correct answer(s):
- Hernando de Soto
What was the 2025 population estimate for Conway?
Correct answer(s):
- 72,328
Which Indigenous people were especially associated with the lower Arkansas River and southeastern Arkansas?
Correct answer(s):
- Quapaw
What was the 2025 population estimate for Bentonville?
Correct answer(s):
- 63,057
Which Indigenous people have important historical ties to the Arkansas region?
Correct answer(s):
- Osage
Which part of Arkansas has been one of the state’s strongest population-growth areas?
Correct answer(s):
- Northwest Arkansas