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Missouri ( /mɪˈzʊəri/ miz-OOR-ee) is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it borders Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas to the south and Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska to the west. In the south are the Ozarks, a forested highland, providing timber, minerals, and recreation. The Missouri River, after which the state is named, flows through the center and into the Mississippi River, which makes up the eastern border. With over six million residents, it is the 18th-most populous state of the country. The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia; the capital is Jefferson City.

Humans have inhabited present-day Missouri for at least 12,000 years. The Mississippian culture, which emerged at least in the ninth century, built cities and mounds before declining in the 14th century. When European explorers arrived in the 17th century, they encountered the Osage and Missouria nations. The French incorporated the territory into Louisiana, founding Ste. Genevieve in 1735 and St. Louis in 1764. After a brief period of Spanish rule, the United States acquired Missouri as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Americans from the Upland South rushed into the new Missouri Territory. Missouri was admitted as a slave state as part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Many from Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee settled in the Boonslick area of Mid-Missouri. Soon after, a heavy settlement of Rhinelanders created the Missouri Rhineland, a German cultural region specializing in wine production.

Missouri played a central role in the westward expansion of the United States, as memorialized by the Gateway Arch. The Pony Express, Oregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail and California Trail all began in Missouri. As a border state, Missouri's role in the American Civil War was complex, and it was subject to rival governments, raids, and guerilla warfare. After the war, both Greater St. Louis and the Kansas City metropolitan area became centers of industrialization and business. Today the state is divided into 114 counties and the independent city of St. Louis. ( Full article...)

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The 12th Missouri Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. After mustering into Confederate service on October 22, 1862, as White's Missouri Infantry, the regiment, as Ponder's Missouri Infantry, fought in the Battle of Prairie Grove on December 7, where it charged the Union lines several times. On May 3, 1863, the regiment was named the 9th Missouri Infantry Regiment, and fought under that name until December 15, 1863, when it was renamed the 12th Missouri Infantry Regiment. On July 4, 1863, the regiment, as part of Brigadier General Mosby M. Parsons' brigade, broke through the Union lines at the Battle of Helena. However, Parsons' flanks were exposed, and the Confederates were driven from the field, suffering heavy losses. After Helena, only 168 men remained in the regiment. On November 22, 1863, the survivors of the regiment were combined into two companies, which were then attached to the 10th Missouri Infantry Regiment, although the 12th Missouri Infantry was still treated as a separate unit for reporting purposes. In April 1864, the 12th Missouri Infantry fought at the battles of Pleasant Hill and Jenkins' Ferry. On September 29, 1864, the survivors of the 12th Missouri Infantry were officially merged into the 10th Missouri Infantry, ending the 12th's separate service career. ( Full article...)

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Michael Lynn Parson (born September 17, 1955) is an American politician serving as the 57th governor of Missouri since 2018. A member of the Republican Party, Parson assumed the governorship when Eric Greitens resigned, as he was lieutenant governor at the time. Parson served the remainder of Greitens's term and was elected governor in his own right in 2020.

Parson served in the Missouri House of Representatives from 2005 to 2011 and the Missouri Senate from 2011 to 2017. He was elected lieutenant governor in 2016. He assumed the governorship on June 1, 2018, upon Greitens's resignation. As governor, Parson signed a bill criminalizing abortion after eight weeks of pregnancy and opposed Medicaid expansion. He oversaw the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, issuing a temporary stay-at-home order in April 2020 but allowing school districts to decide whether to close. Parson placed restrictions on mail-in voting during the 2020 U.S. elections, and oversaw Missouri's reaction to the George Floyd protests. ( Full article...)

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Image 1Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
Image 2The Governor's Mansion is on the National Register of Historic Places. (from Missouri)
Image 3Price's Raid in the Western Theater, 1864 (from History of Missouri)
Image 4 Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 5Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 6Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 7The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 8General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 9Missouri has five major sports teams: the Royals and Cardinals of MLB, St. Louis City SC of MLS, the Chiefs of the NFL, and the Blues of the NHL. (from Missouri)
Image 10The population center for the United States has been in Missouri since 1980. As of 2020, it is near Interstate 44 in Missouri as it approaches Springfield. (from Missouri)
Image 11Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 12Missouri has five major sports teams: the Royals and Cardinals of MLB, St. Louis City SC of MLS, the Chiefs of the NFL, and the Blues of the NHL. (from Missouri)
Image 13Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 14The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 15The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 16Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 17 Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
Image 18 Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play. (from Missouri)
Image 19The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)

Map of counties in Missouri by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census

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Non-Hispanic White

50–60%

60–70%

70–80%

80–90%

90%+

Black or African American

40–50%

(from Missouri)

Image 21Most Missourians traveled longer distances by water, and large cargo was transported by bateaux (shown above). (from History of Missouri)
Image 22 Christopher Bond became the youngest person elected Governor of Missouri in 1972 and was part of the rise of the Republican Party in the state. (from History of Missouri)
Image 23Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 24African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938. (from Missouri)
Image 25 Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
Image 26 Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 27Amtrak station in Kirkwood (from Missouri)
Image 28Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 29The states and territories of the United States as a result of Missouri's admission as a state on August 10, 1821. The remainder of the former Missouri Territory became unorganized territory. (from Missouri)
Image 30Map of counties in Missouri by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census
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- Non-Hispanic White
    50–60%
  
    60–70%
  
    70–80%
  
    80–90%
  
    90%+
  
  Black or African American
    40–50%
(from Missouri)
Image 31Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station (from Missouri)
Image 32Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 33The Shelley House in St. Louis was the focus of a 1948 U.S. Supreme Court case that prohibited restrictive covenants in housing. (from History of Missouri)
Image 34American pioneers such as Daniel Boone with his sons Daniel Morgan Boone, Nathan Boone, and other family members, came to Spanish-controlled Missouri during the 1790s. (from History of Missouri)
Image 35The Lake of the Ozarks is one of several man-made lakes in Missouri, created by the damming of several rivers and tributaries. The lake has a surface area of 54,000 acres and 1,150 miles of shoreline and has become a popular tourist destination. (from Missouri)
Image 36Missouri River near Rocheport, Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 37Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 38A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO. (from Missouri)
Image 39St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch pioneered the use of refrigerator cars to market beer nationally. (from History of Missouri)
Image 40 Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 41The Governor's Mansion is on the National Register of Historic Places. (from Missouri)
Image 42 Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play. (from Missouri)
Image 43The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City services the western portion of Missouri, as well as all of Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and northern New Mexico. (from Missouri)
Image 44Amtrak station in Kirkwood (from Missouri)
Image 45Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
Image 46African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938. (from Missouri)
Image 47The George Washington Carver National Monument near Diamond, Missouri was the first U.S. National Monument dedicated to a non-President and the first for an African-American. (from History of Missouri)
Image 48The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 49The states and territories of the United States as a result of Missouri's admission as a state on August 10, 1821. The remainder of the former Missouri Territory became unorganized territory. (from Missouri)
Image 50Map of early Missouri settlements and trading posts (from History of Missouri)
Image 51The population center for the United States has been in Missouri since 1980. As of 2020, it is near Interstate 44 in Missouri as it approaches Springfield. (from Missouri)
Image 52Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 53 Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 54A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO. (from Missouri)
Image 55The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
Image 56A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 57Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station (from Missouri)
Image 58General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 59A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 60 Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 61Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 62Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
Image 63 Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus (from Missouri)
Image 64Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
Image 65A Rural Electrification Administration lineman at work in Hayti, Missouri in 1942. (from History of Missouri)
Image 66The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 67 Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 68The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City services the western portion of Missouri, as well as all of Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and northern New Mexico. (from Missouri)
Image 69The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 70The Lake of the Ozarks is one of several man-made lakes in Missouri, created by the damming of several rivers and tributaries. The lake has a surface area of 54,000 acres and 1,150 miles of shoreline and has become a popular tourist destination. (from Missouri)
Image 71 Forrest Smith, elected Governor of Missouri in 1948, was the first governor chosen under the 1945 state Constitution. (from History of Missouri)
Image 72Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 73Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 74 Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus (from Missouri)
Image 75The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 76Missouri River near Rocheport, Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 77Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 78The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)

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... that supporters of a 2020 ballot initiative to expand Medicaid in Missouri did not use the words "Medicaid expansion" to describe their proposal in some campaign material?
... that during the August 2023 Mid-South U.S. floods, 3.77 inches (96 mm) of rain fell in Columbia, Missouri, breaking a 113-year rainfall record?
... that Missouri's annual Snake Saturday parade originally began in a hotel parking lot with only four floats?
... that a group of Boy Scouts provided first aid to victims of the 2022 Missouri train derailment before first responders arrived?
... that a Missouri TV station blew up its call letters – literally?
... that despite Missourians voting for Henry Clay, Missouri representative John Scott voted for John Quincy Adams?

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