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The Native Indians of Missouri
were the Caddo, Dakota, Delaware, Fox, Illinois,
Iowa, Kickapoo, Missouri, Omaha, Osage, Oto, Sauk
and Shawnee tribes
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1500's -1600's: Parts of the
Louisiana Territory / Mississippi land later become
Missouri |
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1540 |
1540 -1541: Spanish explorer,
Spanish Hernando de Soto (1500-1542) becomes the
first European to enter Mississippi and discovers
the Mississippi River
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1673 |
The Jesuit priest Jacques
Marquette (1637-1675) and the French Explorer and
fur trader Louis Jolliet (1645-1700) explore the
Mississippi
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1680 |
Father Louis Hennepin
(1626-1705), the Flemish Recollect friar and
explorer, sees the Falls of St. Anthony, future site
of Minneapolis
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1682 |
French explorer René-Robert
Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643-1687) navigates
the Mississippi River to its mouth and claims it for
France
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1699 |
Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur
d'Iberville (1661 - 1706) and his brother Jean
Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur D'Bienville (1680–1768),
establish the first capital of the French colonies
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1714 |
Frenchman, Etienne de Véniard,
sieur de Bourgmont, (1679-1730) builds a fort on the
Missouri River
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1719 |
Pierre Duque de Boisbriant on
behalf of the French King and Marc Antoine de Is
Loire des Ursins on behalf of the India company
establish St. Philippe
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1719 |
Marc Antoine de Is Loire des
Ursins begins mining for lead and silver in Mine La
Motte area and black slaves are put to work in the
mines
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1724 |
Fort Orleans built on the
north bank of the Missouri River by Etienne de
Véniard, sieur de Bourgmont, (1679-1730) in present
Carroll County
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1756 |
1756 - 1763 - The Seven Years
War (French and Indian War) due to disputes over
land is won by Great Britain. France gives England
all French territory east of the Mississippi River,
except New Orleans. The Spanish give up east and
west Florida to the English in return for Cuba
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1762 |
Treaty of Fontainebleau -
Spain gains control of the Louisiana Territory from
France |
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1770 |
May 20 - Spanish government
officially assumes control of the Territory of
Louisiana |
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1775 |
1775 - 1783 - The American
Revolution creates the United States of America. The
Revolution was due to the British burden of taxes
and total power to legislate any laws governing the
American colonies
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1776 |
July 4, 1776 - United States
Declaration of Independence |
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1778 |
July 10, 1778 - France
declares war against Britain and makes an alliance
with the American revolutionary forces
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1783 |
September 3, 1783 - The Treaty
of Paris is signed by the victorious United States
and the defeated Great Britain
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1812 |
1812 - 1815: The War of 1812
between U.S. and Great Britain, ended in a stalemate
but confirmed America's Independence
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1800 |
Spain returns the Louisiana
Territory to France by the Treaty of San Ildefonso
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1803 |
The Louisiana Purchase - In
1803, the United States bought the Louisiana
Territory from France. The U.S. Secretary of State,
James Madison paid 15 million dollars for the land
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1805 |
The Territory of Louisiana
established |
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1805 |
The land is further explored
by the Lewis and Clark expedition - Info -
Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) and William Clark
(1770- 1838)
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1812 |
Portion of the Territory of
Louisiana became the Territory of Missouri |
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1812 |
1812 - 1815: The War of 1812
between U.S. and Great Britain, ended in a stalemate
but confirmed America's Independence
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1817 |
Zebulon M. Pike (1779-1813), a
native of New Jersey reaches St. Louis on the first
steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River
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1821 |
Statehood - The Date that
Missouri was admitted to the Union - August 10,
1821. Constitution - Missouri was the 24th State to
be admitted to the Union. State Motto - " Salus
populi suprema lex esto " the State Motto is
translated as " The Welfare of the People shall be
the Supreme Law "
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1861 |
1861 - 1865: The American
Civil War. In 1859 John Brown raided Harpers Ferry
and set in motion events that led directly to the
outbreak of the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln, a known
opponent of slavery, was elected president and in
1861 the South Secedes. The initial Secession of
South Carolina was followed by the secession of
Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,
Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North
Carolina. These eleven states eventually formed the
Confederate States of America. The bombardment of
Fort Sumter was the opening engagement of the
American Civil War.
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1865 |
The surrender of Robert E. Lee
on April 9 1865 signalled the end of the Confederacy |
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1865 |
1865 December 6 - The
Abolishment of Slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment to
the U.S. Constitution is ratified, thus officially
abolishing slavery
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1898 |
1898-1901 The Spanish American
War. On December 10, 1898 the Treaty of Paris the US
annexes Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines.
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