Area located along the Missouri River in Central Missouri that contained the majority of the state's slave population.
What is "Little Dixie?"
100
French or Spanish born in North America
Who are the Creoles?
100
The common field in French villages
What is the le grande champ?
100
French inland boatmen
Who are the voyagers?
200
Tom Pendergast ran the political machine of this city.
What is Kansas City?
200
His writings motivated thousands of German immigrants to settle in Missouri.
Who is Göttfried Duden?
200
Missouri’s pro-secession governor elected in 1860.
Who is Claiborne F. Jackson?
200
Two major cash crops of antebellum Missouri.
What are hemp and tobacco?
200
Hunting weapon developed to throw a spear faster and farther
What is the atlatl?
300
Drained the swamps and cleared land in Southeast Missouri during the early 20th century.
What is the Little River Drainage District?
300
The group of slaveholding landowners, whose leadership was centered along the Missouri River, dominated Missouri politics for much of the early 19th Century.
What is the Central Clique?
300
Regarded as the father of Texas, he persuaded 1,500 Americans -- mostly Missourians -- to settle Texas.
Who is Stephen Austin?
300
Most of the immigrants from eastern Tennessee and Kentucky settled here.
What are the Ozarks?
300
Missourians leaving for Texas that owed debts left this on their doors.
What is GTT?
400
This war concluded with the signing of a peace treaty aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in 1945.
What is World War II?
400
Selected as one of Missouri's original two senators, he gained a reputation in the Senate as the "Lion of the West," but was removed after a controversial stance on slavery.
Who is Thomas Hart Benton?
400
Issued an 1838 “Extermination Order,” to rid Missouri of the Mormons
Who is Lilburn Boggs?
400
Population center of the state before the civil war.
What is central Missouri, along the Missouri River.
400
Issue that suddenly appeared with Missouri's application for statehood.
What is the expansion of slavery?
500
Designed the Gateway Arch in St. Louis
Who is Eero Saarinen?
500
Armed Missourians who crossed into Kansas to vote illegally to ensure the expansion of slavery into the Kansas territory
Who are "Border Ruffians?"
500
Brought the railroad to Cape Girardeau.
Who is Louis Houck?
500
This type of people were not allowed to settle in Louis Lorimier's settlment so they settled in Bollinger County.
What are Protestants?
500
Group that controlled territorial politics and included men such as territorial governor, William Clark