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| MISSOURI. |
| MISSOURI fell to the
share of France, by virtue of the
discoveries of Marquette and
Joliet in 1673, and La Salle and
Hennepin in 1682. A settlement
arose at St. Genevieve about the
year 1750. The site of St. Louis
was selected by Pierre Lacléde
Lijneste, who sent August Chateau
to found a village there in 1776.
Many French families exiled
themselves from Illinois when
that provice passed into English
hands, and dwelt along the
Missouri shore, trading in furs
with the northwestern Indians,
and farming along the rich
bottom-lands. The Louisiana
Purchase, made by the United
States from Napoleon in 1803,
included Missouri, which for a
time lay in the district of
Louisiana, afterwards the
Territory of Louisiana. After the
War of 1812, thousands of
emigrants poured in from
Kentucky, Tennessee and the
Carolinas. The application of
Missouri to be admitted into the
Union in 1818 was followed by a
long period of angry discussion,
the Northern States being sternly
opposed to the creation of
another slave-holding
commonwealth, while the Southern
people maintained that since
slavery had always existed in
Missouri, under the French and
Spanish Governments, it could not
legally be abolished. Finally,
the famous Missouri Compromise
went into effect, bringing the
new State into the Union with her
existing social system, but
excluding slavery from all the
rest of the Louisiana Purchase
north of 36° 30´. |
| ILLUSTRATIONS. |
The
Eads Bridge at St. Louis;
Founding St. Louis by Chateau,
1764; Old-Time Flat Boat going
down the Mississippi. |
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