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  ...colony of the Gold Coast, became the first black African colony to receive independence. ...se—forbade the creation of further slave states north of latitude 36° 30', Missouri's southern border.
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• Directory:Chad Troutwine
  |birth_place = Independence, Missouri ...te University at nineteen, and went on to earn a JD from the University of Missouri, graduating with honors, and an MBA from the Yale School of Management. Whi
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• Directory:Missouri
  ...rovided for the admission of [[Directory:Maine|Maine]] as a free state and Missouri as a slave state in the following year. Jefferson City is the capital and S ...Independence, Missouri; and by 1845, Kansas City, Missouri. Independence, Missouri was the most popular "jumping off" point on the Oregon Trail.
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• Directory:American Cold War Veterans
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• Directory:Albert Pujols
  ...leges of Kansas City|Maple Woods Community College]] in the [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]] area during the spring of {{by|1999}}. In his only season wit ...nce, Missouri]]. He graduated from Fort Osage High School in Independence, Missouri in 1998, and attended Maple Woods Community College on a baseball scholarsh
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• Directory:James Monroe
  ...tion of [[Florida]] (1819); the [[Missouri Compromise]] (1820), in which [[Missouri]] was declared a slave state; and the profession of the [[Monroe Doctrine]] ...state with [[Maine]], a free state, and barring slavery north and west of Missouri forever.
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• Directory:Maine
  ...ington and Concord, hundreds of Maine men actively joined the struggle for independence. The province saw plenty of action during the Revolution. ...pposition to the Crown, but which only served to stiffen Maine's ardor for independence. The first naval action of the Revolutionary War occurred in 1775 when colo
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• Directory:Franklin Pierce
  ...after he came out in favor of the [[Kansas-Nebraska Act]], repealing the [[Missouri Compromise]] and reopening the question of the expansion of [[History of sl ...Pierce's presidency was the [[Kansas-Nebraska Act]], which repealed the [[Missouri Compromise]] and reopened the question of slavery in the West. This measure
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• Directory:John Quincy Adams
  ...ker Hill]] as a seven-year-old boy. He first learned of the Declaration of Independence from the letters his father wrote his mother from Philadelphia. Much of Ada ...oad]] into [[Ohio]] with surveys for its continuation west to [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]]; the beginning of the [[Chesapeake and Ohio Canal]], the constr
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• Directory:Martin Van Buren
  ...by his vote, in January 1820, for a resolution opposing the admission of [[Missouri]] as a slave state (though he himself was a slave owner). In the same year, ...ut I can do nothing for you; if I take up for you I shall lose the vote of Missouri."<ref>{{cite journal
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• Directory:Harry S. Truman
  |birth_place=[[Lamar, Missouri]] |death_place=[[Kansas City, Missouri]]
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• Directory:America's Got Talent
  * Jason Pritchett - singer/guitar player from [[Independence, Missouri]], Top 8 contestant ...n [[opera]] [[singer]] who sells insurance for a living in [[Sikeston]], [[Missouri]], discovering [[opera]] music in his senior year of high school
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• Directory:Tennessee
  ...d David Crockett, both of whom had been conspicuous in the fight for Texan independence. A decade later the response of Tennessee to the request for volunteers to * Tennessee ties with Missouri as the most neighborly state in the union. It is bordered by 8 states.
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• Directory:New Mexico
  ...rule until 1821 when Mexico won its independence from Spain. Running from Missouri to Santa Fe, the trail opened trade with the U.S. and brought new lifestyle
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• Directory:Abraham Lincoln
  ...h expressly repealed the limits on slavery's extent as determined by the [[Missouri Compromise]] (1820). Illinois Democrat [[Stephen A. Douglas]], the most pow ...y fundamental principles of civil liberty — criticizing the Declaration of Independence, and insisting that there is no right principle of action but ''self-intere
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• Directory:Millard Fillmore
  ...pistol on Senator [[Thomas Hart Benton (senator)|Thomas Hart Benton]] of [[Missouri]]. Fillmore made no public comment on the merits of the compromise proposal ...rvention policies when it came to European affairs and recognize Hungary’s independence. The problem came with the enormous support Kossuth received from German-Am
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• Directory:OmniMediaGroup/PLR/Arthritis
  ...bed, and even driving. With the help you can maintain a certain level of independence that would not otherwise help people. ...rthritis among adults with diabetes range from 42.6% in Hawaii to 62.2% in Missouri.<a href="http://www.cdc.gov/arthritis/" TARGET="_blank" ^[3]</a>
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• Directory:John Tyler
  ...ed to finalize the [[Webster-Ashburton Treaty]] in 1842, demonstrating his independence from Clay. ...e tactic worked and it passed the House 132-72 and the Senate 27-25. The [[Missouri Compromise]] helped to promise security to the west of the United States wi
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• Directory:James K. Polk
  ...ical contention involved the [[Republic of Texas]], which, after declaring independence from [[Mexico]] in 1836, had asked to join the United States. Van Buren opp ...ean, which would prohibit the expansion of slavery above 36° 30' west of [[Missouri]], but allow it below that line if approved by eligible voters in the terri
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• Directory:Thomas Jefferson
  ...l author of the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]] (1776), and one of the most influential [[Founding Fathers of the United ...jpg|thumb|right|Rudolph Evans' statue of Jefferson with the Declaration of Independence preamble to the right.]]
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