Famous Missourians
A scientist who helped farmers, and developed over 300 uses for peanuts.
Who was George Washington Carver?
A slave owned by an army officer.
Who was Dred Scott?
There were approximately this many battles in the state of Missouri.
What is 1,000?
This author wrote about life on the prairie in several books for children.
Who was Laura Ingalls Wilder?
These slave states did not secede from the Union.
What are border states?
After the war St. Louis and Kansas City became important for this reason.
What is business centers?
One of his vibrant mural depicting ordinary people doing ordinary things is painted in the Missouri state capital.
Who is Thomas Hart Benton?
This court case ruled that slaves were not citizens so they could not sue their owners for their freedom.
What was the Dred Scott decision?
Settlers came to Missouri from the eastern United States by this mode of transportation.
What are trains?
Author from Hannibal, MO who wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?
Who was Mark Twain?
Missouri allowed this, but did not secede from the union when the Civil War began.
What is slavery?
Immigrants came to Missouri from these countries after the Civil War.
What are Germany, Ireland and Italy?
Mark Twain was the pen name of this author.
Who was Samuel Clemens?
Most Missourians fought for this side during the Civil War.
What is the Union?
The Civil War brought an end to this.
What is slavery?