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try and agricultural and mineral wealth. Mis- 

 souri has had but three Republican governors; 

 their terms began in 1865, 1909 and 1919. The 

 state was prominent in the Presidential cam- 

 paign of 1912, furnishing one of the candidates 

 for the nomination, Champ Clark, then Speaker 

 of the House of Representatives. The war 

 against corporations, begun in 1908, and later 

 industrial, social and judicial legislation have 

 also added to Missouri's prominence. E.B.P. 



Consult Carr's Missouri, in American Common- 

 wealth Series ; Rader's History of Missouri from 

 the Earliest Times to the Present. 



Related Subjects. The following articles in 

 these volumes contain much that will be of inter- 

 est in connection with a study of Missouri : 



CITIES 



Cape Girardeau 

 Carthage 

 Columbia 

 Hannibal 

 Independence 

 Jefferson City 

 Joplin 

 Kansas City 



La Salle, Sieur de 

 Louisiana Purchase 



Moberly 

 Saint Charles 

 Saint Joseph 

 Saint Louis 

 Sedalia 

 Springfield 

 Webb City > 



Missouri Compromise 

 War of Secession 



LEADING PRODUCTS 



Apple 



Blackberry 



Boots and Shoes 



Cattle 



Cow 



Hog 



Lead 



Iron Mountain 



Mississippi 

 Missouri 



Lumber 



Meat and Meat Packing 



Mule 



Peach 



Wheat 



Wine 



Zinc 



MOUNTAINS 



Ozark 



RIVERS 



Platte 

 White 



MISSOURI, UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational 

 institution, founded at Columbia in 1839, and 

 now organized into a college of arts and sciences, 

 a college of agriculture, schools of commerce, 

 education, engineering, journalism, law, medi- 

 cine, mines and metallurgy, the graduate school 

 and the extension division. Experiment sta- 

 tions are maintained in connection with the de- 

 partments of agriculture and engineering. The 

 university organized the first school of journal- 

 ism in the world and the first school of educa- 

 tion in any state university. All of the univer- 

 sity divisions, with the exception of the school 

 of mines and metallurgy, which is at Rolla, are 

 located at Columbia. The campus at Colum- 

 bia contains about seventy acres and that at 

 Rolla, twenty-seven. The university also owns 

 a farm of nearly 800 acres. 



The equipment of the institution, which is 

 valued at over $3,646,000, includes a library of 

 nearly 200,000 volumes and 100,000 pamphlets. 

 The regular enrolment is over 3,800, but the 

 summer session attracts in addition about f 1,300 

 students of university grade. The distinguish- 

 ing feature of the state university of Missouri 

 is the emphasis which it places on what is fun- 

 damentally the most practical. 



MISSOURI COMPROMISE, kom' 'pro mize, 

 one of the most important measures ever passed 

 by the Congress of the United States, intro- 

 duced by Senator Jesse B. Thomas of Illinois, 

 and approved by President Monroe in March, 

 1820. The most important provisions of the 

 measure were the following: 



Missouri shall be admitted into the Union as a 

 slave state, but slavery shall be forever prohibited 

 north of the southern boundary of Missouri ; 

 namely, 36 30' north latitude. 



The Missouri Compromise was the culmina- 

 tion of one of the early battles between the 

 slavery and antislavery factions. In the year 

 1819 both Maine and Missouri applied for ad- 

 mission into the Union. Maine had already 

 adopted a constitution prohibiting slavery, and 

 as up to that time the number of free and slave 

 states had remained equal, the Southern leaders 

 in Congress refused to admit Maine free unless 

 Missouri should be admitted with slavery. Both 

 sides accepted the compromise as a satisfactory 

 solution of the problem, and by a separate bill 

 Maine came into the Union as a free state. 



The admission of Missouri, however, was de- 

 layed until 1821, as some of the provisions of 

 its constitution were objectionable to the North. 

 Henry Clay, whose support of the act of 1820 

 won him the title "the Great Pacificator," was 

 also influential in securing the second compro- 

 mise by which Missouri was admitted into the 

 sisterhood of states. The Missouri Compro- 

 mise, which remained in force until repealed by 

 the Kansas-Nebraska Bill of 1854, was the first 

 act in American history which by law divided 

 the North into free, and the South into slave, 

 territory. 



' MISSOURI RIVER, a river of the United 

 States which forms part of the longest river 

 system in the world; for while it is usually de- 

 scribed as a tributary of the Mississippi, it is in 

 effect part of that great stream. From its source 

 to its junction with the Mississippi it is 2,945 

 miles long, while the length of the combined 

 rivers from the source of the Missouri to the 

 mouth of the Mississippi is 4,200 miles a length 

 which no other river in the world approaches. 



