among Chiwere (Siouan) tribes, from an Algonquian word recorded c. 1700, said to mean literally "people of the big canoes." Formed as a U.S. territory in 1812 (out of the whole of the Louisiana Purchase not admitted that year as the state of Louisiana); admitted as a state 1821. ...
The Missouri Compromise resulted in the District of Maine, which had originally been settled in 1607 by the Plymouth Company and was a part of Massachusetts, being admitted to the Union as a free state and Missouri being admitted as a slave state. Thomas Jefferson on the Missouri Crisis On ...
Missouri is a state located in the Midwestern United States, ranking as the 18th state to be admitted to the Union. It serves as a significant transportation hub, boasting both waterway and land-based transportation routes, which are vital to its industrial and commercial significance....
A state of the central United States. It was admitted as the 24th state in 1821. Under Spanish control from 1762 to 1800, the area passed to the United States through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Organized as a territory in 1812, Missouri's application for admission as a slaveholding ...
A、Missouri was admitted as a slave state while Maine as a free state. B、California was admitted as a free state while Utah and New Mexico were allowed to decide for themselves about slavery. C、They were afraid that Lincoln would require newly admitted states to be free. ...
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was a congressional agreement that regulated the extension ofSlaveryin the United States for thirty years. Under the agreement, the territory of Missouri was admitted as a slave state, the territory of Maine was admitted as a free state, and the boundaries of sla...
B、 California was admitted as a free state while Utah and New Mexico were allowed to decide for themselves with regards to slavery. C、 There were afraid that Lincoln would require newly admitted states to be free. D、 They were afraid that Lincoln would abolish slavery in the country. ...
A Missouri judge has ruled that the state's Republican governor and not a local Democratic official has the power to fill a vacancy in the prosecutor's office for the state's most populous county Associated PressDec. 20, 2024 Family of Painter Thomas Hart Benton Alleges Bank Undersold Artwork...
This bill provided that Missouri should be admitted as a slave state, but forever prohibited slavery in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory lying north of 36° 30′ N. lat., which line is the southern boundary of Missouri. The matter of slavery was the cause of many controversies ...
In 1812, the "Lower Louisiana" was admitted to the Union as a state, "Upper Louisiana" was organized into the Missouri Territory. By 1818, Missouri had reached the point that its citizens petitioned for admission themselves. Since the institution of slavery had been an established element in ...