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Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise (1820–21) Effort to end the dispute between slave and free states in the USA. Largely the work of Henry
Clay, it permitted
Missouri to join the union as a slave state at the same time as
Maine joined as a free state, preserving an equal balance between slave and free.
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Missouri's Investor-Owned Utilities Elect Officers of the Board of Directors For Newly Formed Missouri Energy Development Association.
PR Newswire; 10/29/2002; 700+ words
; JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri's investor-owned electric and...and officers for the newly created Missouri Energy Development Association. William...To be based in Jefferson City, Missouri, the Association will serve as a...
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Missouri Health Care Plan Officials Want Residents to Seek In-State Treatment.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 1/23/2004; 700+ words
; ...City, Kan., just 285 feet from the Kansas-Missouri state line. If Missouri health care officials get their way, that patient soon could be required to seek treatment at Missouri's closest burn unit -- 130 miles away in Columbia...
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Missouri Life Sciences Summit Attracts Policy Makers and Esteemed Industry Leaders; This Year's Summit Includes Active Participation From More Than A Dozen Legislators.
PR Newswire; 7/7/2003; 700+ words
; ...JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Missouri Biotechnology Association, in cooperation with the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry, today announced the Third Annual Missouri Summit on Life Sciences to be held at Tan-Tar...
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Missouri exports keep growing.(Business)
Newspaper article from: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO); 3/3/2005; 700+ words
; ...HEISLER Of the Post-Dispatch Exports from Missouri rose 24 percent in 2004, boosted by...the state this week. The report ranked Missouri at No. 7 among states in export growth...sales, economists say. The rise in Missouri exports is a welcome sign at places such...
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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...
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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...
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Missouri Gas Energy, Regulators Could Meet to Discuss Cold Weather Rule.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 12/1/2001; 700+ words
; ...Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 1--Missouri Gas Energy and state regulators could...disconnected customers regain service. Missouri Gas Energy is challenging an emergency...Commission filed an appeal Friday in the Missouri Court of Appeals in Kansas City, seeking...
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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...
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MISSOURI SEES COLIN POWELL AS AN ALLY IN RIVER DISPUTE; NORTH DAKOTA'S PLAN HAS INTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO); 8/25/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...WASHINGTON -- In a far-flung water war, a Missouri-Canada alliance fighting to prevent North Dakota from diverting water from the Missouri River may get help from an unlikely source...respond to inquiries about the letter. Missouri and Canada want to block the Devil...
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Missouri leaves No. 11 Oklahoma staggering more.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 1/17/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Byline: Mike DeArmond NORMAN, Okla. _ Missouri and Oklahoma entered Lloyd Noble Center...fighters, two of the Big 12's best. Missouri was punch-drunk from a 6-6 start...definitely were both on our heels," Missouri's Rickey Paulding said. The Sooners...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Missouri Compromise
Book article from: American Eras
The Missouri Compromise Slavery in Missouri. When Missouri applied for admission to the Union as a state in 1819, slavery was already a way of life there. Even before the United States acquired the Louisiana Territory (including the parts that...
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