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This same year, the first Missouri constitution was adopted. The following year, 1821, Missouri was admitted as the 24th state, with the state capital temporarily located in Saint Charles until a permanent capital could be built. Missouri was the first state entirely west of the Mississippi River to be admitted to the Union
The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
In 2017, Missouri became a right-to-work state, [106] but in August 2018, ... Missouri state law permits restaurants seating less than 50 people, bars, bowling alleys ...
Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1: New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Missouri was initially settled predominantly by Southerners traveling up the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Many brought slaves with them. Missouri entered the Union in 1821 as a slave state following the Missouri Compromise of 1820, in which Congress agreed that slavery would be illegal in all territory north of 36°30' latitude, except Missouri.
Missouri became the first state in the nation to enact a ban on abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the federal right to the procedure in 2022.
Missouri and Kansas State, former Big 12 foes, face off on Saturday in a now-rare rivalry. So why did Missouri leave for the SEC in the first place?
When did Iowa become a state? By the early 1840s, Iowa had started to gain attention due to the abundance of American settlers, who had established the first permanent European settlement in ...