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Missouri Compromise
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Missouri Compromise an agreement between the North and the South and passed by Congress in 1820 that allowed Missouri to be admitted as the 24th state in 1821. The North's attempt to force emancipation upon Missouri when it applied for admission as a slave state in 1819 rankled white southerners, and they threatened secession during the debates over the conditions under which Missouri should be granted statehood. The debates resulted in a compromise that involved the drawing of a line through the
Louisiana Purchase territory prohibiting slavery north of the latitude 36°30′ and allowing it in the south.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 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'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...
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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...
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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 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 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
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 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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