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FREE THE STATE OF ME PDF Nasim Marie Jafry | 512 pages | 01 Jul 2008 | HarperCollins Publishers | 9781906321055 | English | London, United Kingdom Maine | History, Facts, Map, & Points of Interest | Britannica Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States. The largest urban areas are St. The state is the 21st-most extensive in area. Missouri is bordered by eight states tied for the most with Tennessee : Iowa to the north, IllinoisKentucky and Tennessee via the Mississippi River to The State of Me east, Arkansas to the south and OklahomaKansas and Nebraska to the west. In the south are the Ozarksa forested highland, providing The State of Me, minerals and recreation. The Missouri Riverafter which the state is named, flows through the center of the state into the Mississippi Riverwhich makes up Missouri's eastern border. Humans have inhabited the land now known as Missouri for at least 12, years. The Mississippian culture built cities and moundsbefore declining in the 14th century. When European explorers arrived The State of Me the 17th century, they encountered the Osage and Missouria nations. Genevieve in and St. Louis in Missouri was admitted as a slave state as part of the Missouri Compromise. Soon after, heavy German immigration formed the Missouri Rhineland. Missouri played a central role in the westward expansion of the United States, as memorialized by the Gateway Arch. After the war, both Greater St. Louis and the Kansas City metropolitan area became The State of Me of industrialization and business. Today the state is divided into counties and the independent city of St. Missouri's culture blends elements from the Midwestern and Southern United States. The musical styles of ragtimeKansas City jazz and St. Louis blues developed in Missouri. The well-known Kansas City-style barbecue and lesser- known St. Louis-style barbecuecan be found across the state and beyond. Missouri is also a major center of beer brewing; Anheuser-Busch is the largest producer in the world. Missouri wine is produced in the Missouri Rhineland and Ozarks. Missouri's alcohol laws are among the most permissive in the United States. Trumanand Mark Twain. Universities in Missouri include the University of MissouriSt. Louis Universityand the top-ranked Washington University in St. The state is named for the Missouri Riverwhich was named after the indigenous Missouri Indiansa Siouan-language tribe. It is said they were called the ouemessourita wimihsoorita[10] meaning "those who have dugout canoes ", by the Miami-Illinois language speakers. Assuming Missouri were deriving from the Siouan language, it would translate as "It connects to the side of it," in reference to the river itself. The linguistic history was treated definitively by Donald M. Lance, who acknowledged that the question is sociologically complex, but no pronunciation could be declared "correct", nor could any be clearly defined as native or outsider, rural or urban, southern or northern, educated or otherwise. There is no official state nickname. This phrase has several origins. One is popularly ascribed to a speech by Congressman Willard Vandiver The State of Mewho declared that "I come from a The State of Me that raises corn and cotton, cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I'm The State of Me Missouri, and you have got to show me. Since the new men were unfamiliar with the mining methods, they required frequent instruction. Perry County is the county with the largest number of caves and the single longest cave. Indigenous peoples inhabited Missouri The State of Me thousands of years before European exploration and settlement. Archaeological excavations along the rivers have shown continuous habitation for more than 7, years. Beginning before CEthere arose the complex Mississippian culturewhose people created regional political centers at present-day St. Their large cities included thousands of individual residences, but they are known for their surviving massive earthwork moundsbuilt for religious, political and social reasons, in platformridgetop and conical shapes. Cahokia was the center of a regional trading network that reached from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. The civilization declined by CE, and most descendants left the area long before the arrival of Europeans. Louis was at one time known as Mound City by the European Americans, because The State of Me the numerous surviving prehistoric mounds, since lost to urban development. The Mississippian culture left mounds throughout the middle Mississippi and Ohio river valleys, extending into the southeast as well as the upper river. The first European settlers were mostly ethnic French Canadianswho created their first settlement in Missouri at present-day Ste. Genevieveabout an hour south of St. They had migrated about from the Illinois Country. They came from colonial villages on the east side of the Mississippi River, where soils The State of Me becoming exhausted and there was insufficient river bottom land for The State of Me growing population. Grain production in the Illinois Country was critical to the survival of Lower Louisiana and especially the city of New Orleans. From toEuropean control of the area west of the Mississippi to the northernmost part of the Missouri River basin, called Louisiana, was assumed by the Spanish as part of the Viceroyalty of New Spaindue to Treaty of Fontainebleau [28] in The State of Me to have Spain join with France in the war against England. The arrival of The State of Me Spanish in St. Louis was in September Louis The State of Me the center of a regional fur trade with Native American tribes that extended up the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, which dominated the regional economy for decades. Trading partners of major firms shipped their The State of Me from St. Louis by river down to New Orleans for export to Europe. They provided a variety of goods to traders, for sale and trade with their Native American clients. The fur trade and associated businesses made St. Louis an early financial center and provided the wealth for some to build fine houses and import luxury items. Its location near the confluence of the Illinois River meant it also handled produce from the agricultural areas. River traffic and trade along the Mississippi were integral to the state's economy, and as the area's first major city, St. Louis expanded greatly after the invention of the steamboat and the increased river trade. Napoleon Bonaparte had gained Louisiana for French ownership from Spain in under the Treaty of San Ildefonsoafter it had been a Spanish colony since But the treaty was kept secret. Louisiana remained nominally under Spanish control until a transfer of power to France on November 30,just three weeks before the cession to the United States. Part of the Louisiana Purchase The State of Me the United States, Missouri earned the nickname Gateway to the West because it served as a major departure point for expeditions and settlers heading to the West during the 19th century. Charlesjust west of St. Louis, was the starting point and the return destination of the Lewis and Clark Expeditionwhich ascended the Missouri River inin order to explore the western lands to the Pacific Ocean. Louis was a major supply point for decades, for parties of settlers heading west. As many of the early settlers in western The State of Me migrated from the Upper Souththey brought enslaved African Americans as agricultural laborers, and they desired to continue their culture and the institution of slavery. They settled predominantly in 17 counties along the Missouri Riverin an area of flatlands that enabled plantation agriculture and became known as " Little Dixie. The state was rocked by the —12 New Madrid earthquakes. Casualties were few due to the sparse population. Inthe former Missouri Territory was admitted as a slave statein accordance with the Missouri Compromiseand with a temporary state capital in St. Inthe capital was shifted to its current, permanent location of Jefferson Cityalso on the Missouri River. Originally the state's western border was a straight line, defined as the meridian passing through the Kawsmouth, [29] the point where the Kansas River The State of Me the Missouri River. The river has moved since this designation. This line is known as the Osage Boundary. In the early s, Mormon migrants from northern states and Canada began settling near Independence and areas just north of there. Conflicts over religion and slavery arose between the 'old settlers' mainly from the South and the Mormons mainly from the North. The Mormon War erupted in Bywith the help of an "Extermination Order" by Governor Lilburn Boggsthe old settlers forcefully expelled the Mormons from Missouri and confiscated their lands. Conflicts over slavery exacerbated border tensions among the states The State of Me territories. From toa border dispute with Iowa over the so-called Honey Lands resulted in both states' calling-up of militias along the border. With increasing migration, from the s to the s Missouri's population almost doubled with every decade. Most of the newcomers were American- born, but many Irish and German immigrants arrived in the late s and s. As a majority were Catholicthey set up their own religious institutions in the state, which had been mostly Protestant. Many settled in cities, where they created a regional and then state network of Catholic churches and schools. Nineteenth-century German immigrants created the wine industry along the Missouri River and the beer industry in St. While many German immigrants were strongly anti-slavery, [32] [33] many Irish immigrants living in cities were pro-slavery, fearing that liberating African-American slaves would create a glut of unskilled labor, driving wages down. Most Missouri farmers practiced subsistence farming before the American Civil War.

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