Starting point for most westward trails during the mid 19th century
What is Independence?
100
Established in 1735, this is the oldest settlement in the state.
What is Ste. Genevieve?
100
Considered a "dress rehearsal" for the Civil War because it gave many of the leading Civil War figures their first taste of war.
What is the Mexican-American War?
100
Meaning of the word "Missouri."
What is "Land of the Big Canoe?"
200
In 1820 he was elected Missouri's first state governor.
Who is Alexander McNair?
200
This city became a center for the meat-packing industry during the end of the 19th Century, which was only outranked by Chicago.
What is Kansas City?
200
This group of French people were the most responsible for the exploration and settlement of Missouri?
Who are the fur trappers/traders?
200
Settled Missouri in the 1830s believing that Missouri was a “land of milk and honey.” Later, Missourians forced them out of the state.
Who are the Mormons?
200
Despite the fact that Native Americans have lived in Missouri for nearly 12,000 years, archeological evidence shows that after the emergence of this, people began be sedentary and live in villages.
What is Pottery?
300
This Kentucky pioneer was invited to settle Missouri with the hope that he would bring other American settlers to populate Missouri.
Who is Daniel Boone?
300
Located in southwest Missouri, this geographic area consists of cky hills, deep valleys, cliffs, tablelands, springs, and forests.
What are the Ozarks?
300
Traveling Methodist ministers that rode from town to town performing religious services.
Who are Circuit Riders?
300
Allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
Major characteristic of Mississippian Period societies.
What are Mounds?
400
He secured 4,000 volunteers, called the Home Guard, to meet Lincoln’s request for troops after the fall of Ft. Sumter.
Who is Frank Blair?
400
This area of southeast Missouri is the northern most extension of the Gulf-Atlantic Coastal Plain.
What are the SE Lowlands?
400
They established St. Louis in 1763 at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
Who are Chouteau and Laclede?
400
The first event of the Civil War in Missouri occured outside St. Louis after the Home Guard captured this.
What is Camp Jackson?
400
Exact date of Missouri's statehood.
What is August 10, 1821?
500
Missouri senator that led raids into Kansas during the Border War and encouraged Missourians to defend slavery at any cost.
Who is David Rice Atchison?
500
Area west of St. Louis along the Missouri River, where Germans settled because of its resemblance to western Germany.
What is the Rhineland?
500
By the 1820 census, Missouri’s population had skyrocketed. Most settlers came from this region of the USA.
What is the South?
500
Led an unsuccessful raid into Missouri in 1864 with the hope that he would capture the state for the Confederacy. In the end, he retreated back into Arkansas.
Who is Sterling Price?
500
She is regarded as the first woman to vote in a Missouri election.