Missouri

Missouri also known as the “Show-Me State” has many interesting facts. For instance, the ice cream cone was invented at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904. The state of Missouri was named after a tribe of Sioux Indians. The word "Missouri" means "wooden canoe people" or "he of the big canoe." Missouri is pronounced different ways in different countries. The “Show-Me State” was founded in 1764 and became the 24th state in 1821. The early Missourians were skilled nomadic hunters. Missouri also has

Missouri the 24th State in the Union will no-longer offer a free ACT for high school juniors. The new governor of Missouri Eric Greitens has brought new budget cuts that strip schools of the funding that they depend on to pay for the ACT for students every year in April. Missouri has one the highest poverty rates in the country and many families cannot afford to pay for this college required test. The ACT is a very vital and important tool that kids need to be able to pay for college and have a successful

making Missouri a state. At this time, the Union consisted of eleven free states and eleven slave states. Once Missouri was established as a state, it upset the balance as Missouri would become a slave state, and there would be one more slave state than there would be free states. The southerners were happy about this decision while the Northerners feared this would lead to the extension on slavery in the north eventually. As a solution for all of the controversial arguments, the Missouri Compromise

Although the Missouri plan has worked for the state of Missouri, I still believe that Alabama has the better of the two. Missouri judicial selection process I consider to be more consistent on their choosing of judges, I feel that the Alabama gives the people the right to choose or elect individual judges, although nominees are required to go through the selection process it is the registered voters to vote on his is to become a judge. I also, in my opinion, think that Missouri judicial selection

warfare began shortly before the start of the Civil War and lasted a few years after the war. The guerrillas dominated Missouri to such an extent that the Union army had to station thousand's of troops in the state to try to control the turmoil that these guerillas caused. As Richard Brownlee states on page 5 "The history of the western Confederate guerillas began in the state of Missouri several years

Claire McCaskill, the first women Senator for the State of Missouri was elected in 2006. Senator McCaskill politically identifies with the Democrat Party (“About Claire,” n.d.). Claire attended Hickman High School in Columbia Missouri. Claire's father was a World War II veteran and worked at the Missouri State Insurance Commissioner and her mother was a member of the Columbia City Council (“About Claire,” n.d.). Although with no direct military service, Claire McCaskill's father was a war veteran

1) The Senate?s main leadership positions are the Lt. Governor as well as the second formal leader of the Majority Party who is the President Pro Tem of the Senate. The Lt. Governor is considered the ?President? of the Missouri Senate and is able to cast the final vote in the event of a tie in Senate. The Lt. Governor is elected separately from the Governor by a statewide election. The President Pro Tem of the Senate is chosen by the Majority Party but elected by the Senate members. The House of

for this health assessment is Odessa, Missouri. Odessa is located in rural Missouri, east of the Greater Kansas City area. The small population of Odessa citizens making up a tight knit community. This small community was chosen to look at the population diversity, health concerns for this community and other rural populations and how this community comes together, working together to battle these concerns. History of Odessa, Missouri Lafayette County Missouri was founded in 1820 and organized with

Professor Pasley History of Missouri 2440 Missouri Experience 28 November 2014 The Lives of Boone and Bourgmont Étienne de Veniard, sieur de Bourgmont and Daniel Boone led very interesting lives. Both of them being explorers of Missouri and sharing love for the land. Though they were both explorers, they still resided very different lifestyles. Bourgmont was an entire life ahead of Boone. Bourgmont was considered an outlaw when he first became the explorer of the Missouri River basin while Boone was

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (or NAACP) in Missouri issued a travel advisory for people of color. The oldest civil rights group in the United States announced the warning after state legislators passed a law that the group deems "legal discrimination." The NAACP circulated messages using various mediums that advised people of color -- namely, African Americans -- to travel throughout the state of Missouri at their "own risk" due to an atmosphere of "looming danger." The travel