The First Continental Congress suggested that colonists boycott British goods in 1774 to protest the Stamp Act.
elections held in England.
unfair treatment of their representatives.
unfair taxes and the Intolerable Acts.

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.