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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.
Claiborne Fox Jackson (April 4, 1806 – December 6, 1862) was an American politician of the Democratic Party in Missouri. He was elected as the 15th Governor of Missouri, serving from January 3, 1861, until July 31, 1861, when he was forced out by the Unionist majority in the Missouri General Assembly after planning to force the secession of the state.
By the end of the war, Missouri had supplied 110,000 troops for the Union Army and 40,000 troops for the Confederate Army. [162] During the Civil War Charles D. Drake, a former Democrat, became a fierce opponent of slavery, and a leader of the Radical Republicans. In 1861 to 1863 he proposed without success the immediate and uncompensated ...
A journal of a Confederate Civil War soldier from Missouri is published by the State Historical Society of Missouri
The exiled government established operations in Marshall, Texas, as part of the Trans-Mississippi bloc of Southern civil governments. Although Confederate supporters in Missouri were unable to make good on their secession, the Southern government-in-exile sent legislators to the Congress of the Confederate States , and Missouri was represented ...
Wilson's Creek, the Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Rombauer, Robert J. The Union Cause in St. Louis in 1861. St. Louis: St. Louis Centennial Year (Press), 1909. Schrantz, Ward L. Jasper County, Missouri in the Civil War, 1923. National Park Service battle description
1820 (when the state entered the Union) 1865 (at the conclusion of the Civil War) 1875 (at the end of Reconstruction) 1945 (in the wake of the toppling of the Pendergast Machine). The 1820 constitution provided for minor revisions to be made by amendment, but required that any general revision be carried out by an elected special convention.
During the lead-up to the American Civil War, the proposed secession of Missouri from the Union was controversial because of the state's disputed status. The Missouri state convention voted in March 1861, by 98-1, against secession, and was a border state until abolishing slavery in January 1865.