Why was the headright system implemented?

 It was used as a way to attract new settlers to the region and address the labor shortage.

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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.