for 2‚341 miles (3.767 km)‚ North America’s longest river‚ the Missouri River‚ is a gem of natural resources and a vital transportation pathway. Nicknamed the “Big Muddy” because of its silt material‚ the river begins at the confluence of the Madison‚ Jefferson‚ and Gallatin Rivers in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana‚ and meanders through mountainous canyons and from bluff to bluff across the Great Plains. Around 1500‚ the Missouri River valley was the home of several Native American tribes‚
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status. He graduated with honors from Kansas City Kansas Community College in spring of 2015. Through a program of University of Missouri-Kansas City
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overlooking the Missouri River. One significance in the capitol building is the Missouri State Museum‚ which is located on the first floor of the Missouri State Capitol Building‚ and run by the Department of Natural Resources and Division of State Parks. The museum contains long-term exhibits and regularly changing temporary exhibits. Also‚ there is a program that develops a series of traveling exhibits that can be used as educational tools by schools‚ civic and other groups. The Missouri State Museum
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HISTORY OF WEBSTER UNIVERSITY The history of Webster University goes back to 1915 when it was founded by the Sisters of Loretto on November 1‚ 1915 in Webster Groves‚ Missouri. The school was originally named Loretto College after the Catholic religious organization which was founded in 1812. It was one of the first Catholic women colleges west of the Mississippi River. The organization wanted to give opportunity to the more unfortunate women to attend a school during a time when higher education
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DBQ Essay: The Success of Missouri Compromise The Missouri Compromise‚ one of the most known agreements in American history‚ was an attempt presented by Henry Clay in calming sectional division between the Northern and Southern states over the issue of slavery. While the Missouri Compromise found a temporary solution in regards to representation resulting in twelve free states and twelve slave states(G)‚ it also‚ however‚ ignited the strong feelings‚ opinions‚ and justifications of two opposing
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The Missouri Compromise‚ in many ways made political conditions worse between the North and South. For a long time the North and South had been fighting about political issues such as slavery. The North believed that it was wrong to capture‚ enslave and ship Africans to America to work in harsh conditions for free for White owners. The South‚ on the other hand believed slavery was right and should be used for helping the economy and producing cash crops so the North could use the supplies to make
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Missouri Compromise The first ships with African Slaves arrived in America in the 1600s and the slave trade spread through the colonies and continued through the birth of the United States. With the expansion of cotton and other goods of agriculture through the South‚ more slaves were needed to continue production. But after the American Revolution‚ many American goods‚ including indigo and tobacco‚ lost their appeal because the British were less keen to only trading with the US. Many slaves that
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Court% Steve often purchases office supplies from Supplymax. a company with stores in many states‚ but none in Steve home state of Missouri. Supplymax does‚ however‚ maintain a distribution center in Kansas City. Missouri. Supplymax does not advertise in Missouri except that it places a few advertisements in national magazines. Some of which are sold in Missouri. Steve has an agreement with their store in Chicago. and Steve will often contact the Chicago store and have them hold items for him to
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slave who was taken to Missouri from Virginia and sold. His new master then moved to Illinois (a free state) for a while but soon moved back to Missouri. Upon his master’s death‚ Scott claimed that since he had resided in a free state‚ he was consequentially a free man. The case eventually made it to the Supreme Court. As stated by Supreme Court Justice C. J. Taney‚ "In considering this...controversy‚ two questions arise: 1st was he sick‚ together with his family‚ free in Missouri by reason of his stay
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sectionalism in the country originating from events such as the Tariff of 1828 ‚ the National Bank‚ and the Missouri Compromise. Preceding the Missouri Compromise was the Tallmadge amendment. When the Tallmadge amendment was passed‚ the South was infuriated. The amendment decreed that the slave state of Missouri had to gradually free all of their slaves and prohibited any more slaves to be brought into Missouri before they could be admitted into the Union. This made slave-owning Southerners upset because they
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