Agriculture has played a major role in Arkansas’s culture from territorial times, when farmers made up more than ninety percent of the population, through the present (about forty-five percent of the state’s residents were still classified as rural in 2006). Beginning as a region populated by small, self-sufficient landowners, the state evolved through a plantation culture before the Civil War, to an era when tenant farming and sharecropping dominated from the Civil War to World War II, before yielding to technology and commercial enterprise. For more than 150 years, agricultural practices had hardly changed. Hand tools and draft animals limited an average farmer to cultivating about four acres a day and made it difficult to accumulate wealth. But World War II transformed agriculture, and in twenty-five years, machines turned what had been a lifestyle into a capitalistic endeavor.
Isolationists didn't want to join European schemes or war efforts. The Lend-lease program was a program by the government to help send help to Europe but isolationists wanted to stay on their continent and not participate in any of the affairs there.
Maroon colonies showed African-American resistance to slavery because they showed how slaves wanted to and were able to escape from slavery. Escaping and creating the maroon colonies was a way of going against slaveowners while taking away their property.
Federal jurisdiction is the authority to exercise the judicial power of the Commonwealth. State or territory jurisdiction is the authority to exercise the judicial power of a State or Territory. The courts in each polity (Commonwealth, State or Territory) comprise the judicial branch of government in that polity.
