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Missouri became part of the U.S. in 1803 when President Thomas Jefferson paid $15 million for the Louisiana Territory as part of the land deal.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
100
State Capital of Missouri
What is Jefferson City?
100
This river is Missouri's eastern border.
What is the Mississippi River?
100
The number of counties in Missouri
What is 114?
100
Joplin poet and playwright whose first published poem was "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
Who was Langston Hughes?
200
Thomas Jefferson sent them to explore the Louisiana Territory in 1804, and the left from St. Louis.
Who were Meriwether Lewis and Willliam Clark?
200
Missouri's state motto
What is Salus Populi suprema lex esto. (The Welfare of the People Shall be the Supreme Law)?
200
States that form Missouri's eastern border.
What are Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee?
200
The branch of government that carries out the state law
What is the executive branch?
200
Missouri author whose pen name was Mark Twain
Who was Samuel Clemens?
300
After the Louisiana Purchase, Congress divided the territory into the Territory of Orleans and this district which included Missouri.
What was the District of Louisiana (later named the Lousiana Territory)?
300
Missouri's nickname
What is the "Show-Me State"?
300
Missouri's northern border state.
What is Iowa?
300
The branch of government that makes the state laws
What is the legislative branch?
300
She was living in Mansfield when she wrote her Little House on the Prairie books.
Who was Laura Ingalls Wilder?
400
In 1812, Missouri's population was big enough for the region to become this.
What is a territory?
400
The State Mineral
What is Galena?
400
Missouri's southern border state.
What is Arkansas?
400
The branch of government that interprets the law?
What is the judicial branch?
400
Missouri poet whose poems about cats were the basis of Cats, the longest-running Broadway musical
Who was T.S. Eliot?
500
Thomas Jefferson appointed this explorer as governor of the Louisiana Territory?
Who was Meriwether Lewis?
500
Missouri's state song
What is the "Missouri Waltz"?
500
The highest point in Missouri
What is Taum Sauk Mountain?
500
The name of the state legislature
What is the General Assembly?
500
Creator of Mickey Mouse
Who was Walt Disney?
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