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The "Missouri Crisis" was resolved at first in 1820 when the Missouri Compromise cleared the way for Missouri's entry to the union as a slave state. The Missouri Compromise stated that the remaining portion of the Louisiana Territory above the 36°30′ line was to be free from slavery. This same year, the first Missouri constitution was adopted.
The Genesis of Missouri: From Wilderness Outpost to Statehood (University of Missouri Press, 1989) Gardner, James A. "The Business Career of Moses Austin in Missouri, 1798-1821." Missouri Historical Review (1956) 50#3 pp 235–47. Gitlin, Jay. The bourgeois frontier: French towns, French traders, and American expansion (Yale University Press, 2009)
French colonists adapted a form of the Illinois language-name for the people: Wimihsoorita. Their name means "One who has dugout canoes". [11] The name Missouri has several different pronunciations even among its present-day inhabitants, [12] the two most common being / m ɪ ˈ z ɜːr i / ⓘ mih-ZUR-ee and / m ɪ ˈ z ɜːr ə / ⓘ mih-ZUR-ə.
Missouri was initially settled predominantly by Southerners, who traveled up the Mississippi River.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.
Roald Amundsen (1872–1928), Norwegian polar explorer and discoverer of South Pole [10] Abdul Rahman Andak (1859–1930), Malaysian politician [citation needed] Clinton Presba Anderson (1895–1975), congressman from New Mexico, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, and a U.S. senator from New Mexico. Raised in Albuquerque Lodge No. 60 in 1917. [10]
The Missouri Territory was originally known as the larger Louisiana Territory since 1804 (encompassing most of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase from the French Empire) and was renamed by the U.S. Congress on June 4, 1812, to avoid confusion with the new 18th state of Louisiana (further to the south on the lower Mississippi River with its river port city of New Orleans), which had been admitted to ...
Franklin, Missouri, founded in 1816, became a large port on the Missouri River and an early center of settlement and economic activity. There, the Boone's Lick Trail ended and William Becknell (c.1787/88-1856), blazed the Santa Fe Trail further to the southwest to the adjacent Spanish Empire 's colonial territories in its province of New Mexico .
St. Joseph was founded on the Missouri River by Joseph Robidoux, a local fur trader of French Canadian descent. It was officially incorporated in 1843. [6] In its early days, it was a bustling outpost and rough frontier town, serving as a last supply point and jumping-off point for travelers on the Missouri River toward the "Wild West".