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Missouri
Missouri river, c.2,565 mi (4,130 km) long (including its Jefferson-Beaverhead-Red Rock headstream), the longest river of the United States and the principal tributary of the Mississippi River. The length of the combined Missouri-Mississippi system from the headwaters of the Missouri to the mouth... Read more
Missouri
Missouri , one of the midwestern states of the United States. It is bordered by Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee, across the Mississippi R. (E), Arkansas (S), Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska (W), and Iowa (N). Facts and Figures Area, 69,686 sq mi (180,487 sq km). Pop. (2000) 5,595,211,... Read more
Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise 1820-21, measures passed by the U.S. Congress to end the first of a series of crises concerning the extension of slavery. By 1818, Missouri Territory had gained sufficient population to warrant its admission into the Union as a state. Its settlers came largely from the Sout... Read more
University of Missouri
University of Missouri at Columbia (main campus), Rolla, Kansas City, and St. Louis; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1839, opened 1841. It is the oldest state university W of the Mississippi; its journalism school was the first (1908) in the world. There are medical schools... Read more
Joseph Orville Shelby
Joseph Orville Shelby 1830-97, Confederate cavalry commander in the American Civil War, b. Lexington, Ky. He made a considerable fortune in rope manufacturing in Kentucky and Missouri. While in Missouri he participated in the Kansas-Missouri border war on the proslavery side. When the Civil War bro... Read more
Marias
Marias , river, c.210 mi (340 km) long, rising in several branches in NW Montana near the Continental Divide and flowing SE to the Missouri River near Fort Benton. It receives the Teton River. The Marias is used for irrigation. Tiber Dam (completed 1956), located in the lower course, is part of the ... Read more
Saint Francis
Saint Francis river, c.470 mi (760 km) long, rising in the hills of SE Missouri and flowing S through NE Arkansas to join the Mississippi River near Helena, Ark. The river forms part of the Arkansas-Missouri border. Wappapello Dam (completed 1941), near Poplar Bluff, Mo., forms a reservoir. The riv... Read more
Sterling Price
Sterling Price 1809-67, Confederate general in the American Civil War, b. Prince Edward co., Va. After moving to Missouri, he practiced law and entered politics. He served in Congress (1844-46), resigning to lead a Missouri regiment in the Mexican War . Made military governor of New Mexico, he put... Read more
Benjamin Gratz Brown
Benjamin Gratz Brown 1826-85, U.S. Senator (1863-67) and governor of Missouri (1871-73), b. Lexington, Ky. An able lawyer in St. Louis, Brown was a leader in the Free-Soil movement in Missouri and later helped form the Republican party there. In the memorable Missouri election of 1870, Brown and hi... Read more
Pierre
Pierre , city (1990 pop. 12,906), state capital (since 1889) and seat of Hughes co., central S.Dak., on the east bank of the Missouri River, opposite Fort Pierre; inc. 1883. Its economy is centered around agriculture (chiefly grains and cattle), tourism, and the state government. Electrical and irri... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Missouri"

Missouri Compromise of 1820
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law MISSOURI COMPROMISE OF 1820 The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was a congressional agreement that regulated...for the next 30 years. Under the agreement the territory of Missouri was admitted as a slave state, the territory of Maine was admitted...
Missouri
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Missouri river, c.2,565 mi (4,130 km) long (including...of the Mississippi River. The length of the combined Missouri-Mississippi system from the headwaters of the Missouri to the mouth of the Mississippi is c.3,740 mi...
Missouri Compromise
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law Missouri Compromise The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was a congressional agreement that regulated...States for thirty years. Under the agreement, the territory of Missouri was admitted as a slave state, the territory of Maine was admitted...
Missouri River
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History MISSOURI RIVER The Missouri River is the longest river in the United States. It flows for 2...Madison, and Gallatin rivers at Three Forks, Montana. From there the Missouri flows east and southeast, ultimately joining the Mississippi River...
Missouri River basin project
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Missouri River basin project comprehensive plan...development of water resources of the Missouri River and its tributaries, draining an...Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Iowa, and Minnesota. The...
Missouri v. Holland
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States Missouri v. Holland, 252 U.S. 416 (1920...Devanter and Pitney in dissent. The state of Missouri sought to enjoin a United States game...See Treaties and Treaty Power .) Missouri appealed from lower court decisions upholding...
Missouri Ex Rel. Gaines v. Canada
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States Missouri Ex Rel. Gaines v. Canada, 305 U.S...American resident, sought admission to Missouri's all‐white law school in...blacks. Predictably, the University of Missouri denied Gaines's application on racial...
Missouri v. Jenkins (1990)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States Missouri v. Jenkins (1990), 495 U.S. 33...remedy for segregation in the Kansas City, Missouri, school district, the district court...held that the lower federal courts in Missouri had improperly ordered the state to help...
Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health, 497 U.S...permanently vegetative state. The Missouri Supreme Court had ruled, however...evidence of the patient's will, the Missouri court refused to permit a guardian...
Craig v. Missouri
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States Craig v. Missouri, 4 Pet. (29 U.S.) 410 (1830...The question presented was whether a Missouri statute authorizing loan certificates...ban on bills of credit. Arguing for Missouri, Senator Thomas Hart Benton, a leading...

Dictionary entries related to "Missouri"

Missouri Compromise
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History MISSOURI COMPROMISE MISSOURI COMPROMISE, legislation enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1820...for the admission of the state of Maine into the Union") and the Missouri enabling act of 6 March ("An Act to authorize the people of the...
Missouri
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History MISSOURI MISSOURI. Missouri's diversity marks it as a microcosm of the nation. Located in the center of the country and drained by the great Mississippi River on its eastern border and bisected by the Missouri River, Missouri's land area...
Missouri River
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History MISSOURI RIVER MISSOURI RIVER, in the central and northwest central United States, is a...Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reached the mouth of the Missouri in 1673. It was known to them as Peki-tan-oui, so named on some...
Missouri River Fur Trade
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History MISSOURI RIVER FUR TRADE MISSOURI RIVER FUR TRADE. The fur trade was the principal form of commerce...and it was able to develop to such a great extent because of the Missouri River. Although the Missouri was difficult to navigate, it was...
Missouri v. Holland
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History MISSOURI V. HOLLAND MISSOURI V. HOLLAND, 252 U.S. 416 (1920), was a 7 to 2 Supreme Court...Congress enacted legislation to enforce its provisions. The state of Missouri challenged the act as an encroachment on the jurisdiction reserved...
Craig v. State of Missouri
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History CRAIG V. STATE OF MISSOURI CRAIG V. STATE OF MISSOURI, 4 Peters 410 (1830). The Missouri legislature, in 1821, established an office for issuing paper money that would be loaned to debt-burdened Missouri farmers. When Hiram Craig defaulted...
Missouri Ex Rel Gaines v. Canada
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History MISSOURI EX REL GAINES V. CANADA MISSOURI EX REL GAINES V. CANADA, 305 U.S 337 (1938). Gaines was...decision, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes struck down a Missouri scheme whereby the state excluded African Americans from its...
Cummings v. Missouri
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History CUMMINGS V. MISSOURI CUMMINGS V. MISSOURI, 4 Wallace 277 (1866). Acting against the interests of...the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated a provision in the Missouri constitution of 1865 that required public and corporation officers...
United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History UNITED STATES V. TRANS-MISSOURI FREIGHT ASSOCIATION UNITED STATES V. TRANS-MISSOURI FREIGHT ASSOCIATION, 166 U.S. 290 (1897), involved the attempt of eighteen western railroads to fix freight rates by mutual agreement. The government...
American Fur Company
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...to gain control of the Mississippi-Missouri trade through St. Louis, but found...stockholders. He then attempted to buy into the Missouri Fur Company of Manuel Lisa. Again the...Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. senator from Missouri, Astor got the factory system abolished...

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Missouri Western top tourney seed
Newspaper article from: The Topeka Capital-Journal; 2/22/1999; 700+ words ; ...lost at Truman State. On Saturday, the Gorillas lost 80-69 to border rival Missouri Southern in Joplin. Missouri Western, meanwhile, beat Northwest Missouri State 78-66 on Saturday, leaving the Griffons and Gorillas as regular season...
Putting Missouri v. Holland on the map.(Symposium)
Magazine article from: Missouri Law Review; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...admitted that geographically speaking, Missouri v. Holland disappoints. One thrills...divisive dispute between the State of Missouri and a province of the Netherlands...lower-level federal official. And Missouri's particulars play a limited role in...
Missouri Treasurer Farmer Urges Parents This Holiday Season to Give the Gift that Keeps on Giving: A College Education.
PR Newswire; 12/7/2004; 700+ words ; ...approach of the holiday gift giving season, Missouri State Treasurer, Nancy Farmer, today called on Missouri parents and family members to consider...a MO$T college savings account. The Missouri Saving for Tuition program (MO$T...
Missouri Dems: Hulshof Supports Repealing Campaign Contribution Limits
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service; 2/21/2008; 604 words ; The Democratic Party of Missouri issued the following news release...that he backs legislation abolishing Missouri's voter-supported contribution...annual Associated Press Day at the Missouri Capitol, Hulshof took repeated questions...
Missouri Opens Campaign to Inform Utility Customers on Deregulation.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 9/28/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...Tribune Business News Sep. 30--Missouri is moving to center stage in the nation...consumers will benefit. On Tuesday, Missouri Gas Energy and the Consumer Energy Council...local utilities. The campaign, called Missouri SmartChoice, is considered innovative...
Missouri Chamber Lauds Passage of Landmark State Economic Development Legislation.
Business Wire; 5/24/2007; 700+ words ; ...poised to generate millions in additional economic activity for Missouri, tops the list of successes the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry is taking away from the 2007 Missouri Legislative Session. Possibly the largest investment in economic...
Missouri River review should focus on grain traffic.
Magazine article from: Feedstuffs; 11/18/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...markets are having a dramatic effect on Missouri River barge traffic and raising the question...of a barge-loading terminal on the Missouri River at Nebraska City, Neb. This 40...range for corn shipped by barge on the Missouri River (Corps, 1998). Swanson has...
Missouri's Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 2/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; Missouri's Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation...Identity in the Border West. By Christopher Phillips. Missouri Biography Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2000. Pp. xviii, 342. $29.95...
Missouri shows rest of U.S. how to slack off at work.
Newspaper article from: Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA); 7/19/2005; 700+ words ; ...Mike Ekey Jul. 19--The jig is up, Missouri. The rest of the country is on to me...dirty secret, showing that the average Missouri worker wastes nearly four hours a day...review -- it lands him a promotion. Missouri workers are not that far off the mark...
MISSOURI
Magazine article from: Area Development Site and Facility Planning; 6/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...industry holds unlimited potential for Missouri, creating high-paying jobs and helping...When he took office early in 2001, Missouri Governor Bob Holden directed the state...Combined with an educated work force, Missouri's central location, low cost of living...