How did the united states gain possession of the state Missouri?

Answer 1

It was admitted to the Union as a slave-state as part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Missouri's Southern border was then adopted as the reference-point for all new states. North of this line, slavery would be illegal.
In 1818, Missouri requested admittance to the Union as a slave state. This became a national controversy, but under the Missouri Compromise, both Maine and Missouri became states. Missouri became the 24th US state on August 10, 1821.

Answer 2

Native Inhabitants and European SettlementHernando De Soto's expedition undoubtedly passed (1540-42) through the region, then inhabited by the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Natchez, but the first permanent European settlement was not made until 1699, when Pierre le Moyne, sieur d'Iberville, established a French colony on Biloxi Bay. Settlement accelerated in 1718, when the colony came under the French Mississippi Company, headed by the speculator John Law. The region was part of Louisiana until 1763, when, by the Treaty of Paris England received practically all the French territory E of the Mississippi River and also East Florida and West Florida, which had belonged to Spain. English colonists, many of them retired soldiers, had made the Natchez district a thriving agricultural community, producing tobacco and indigo, by the time Bernardo de Gálvez captured it for Spain in 1779. By the Treaty of Paris of 1783, at the end of the American Revolution, the United States (with English approval) claimed as its southern boundary in the West lat. 31°N. Most of the present-day state of Mississippi was included in the area. Spain denied this claim, and the long, involved West Florida Controversy ensued. StatehoodIn the Pinckney Treaty (1795), Spain accepted lat. 31°N as the northern boundary of its territory but did not evacuate Natchez until the arrival of American troops in 1798. Congress immediately created the Mississippi Territory, with Natchez as the capital and William C. C. Claiborne as the governor. After Georgia's cession (1802) of its Western lands to the United States and the Louisiana Purchase (1803), a land boom swept Mississippi. The high price of cotton and the cheap, fertile land brought settlers thronging in, most of them via the Natches Trace, from the Southern Piedmont region and even from New England. A few attained great wealth, but most simply managed a living. In 1817 Mississippi became a state, with substantially its present-day boundaries; the eastern section of the Mississippi Territory was organized as Alabama Territory.

Answer 3

In 1818, Missouri requested admittance to the Union as a slave state. This became a national controversy, but under the Missouri Compromise, both Maine and Missouri became states. Missouri became the 24th US state on August 10, 1821.

Answer 4

It was a more northern state that wanted slavery. Issues over slavery were intense and this led to the Missouri compromise. This allowed for Missouri to enter the union as a slave state and allowed Maine to enter as a free state.

Answer 5

Missouri became a state in August of 1821.

Answer 6

Missouri was a part of what is known as The Louisiana Purchase, acquired from France on April 30th, 1803. It achieved statehood on August 10, 1821.

Answer 7

Because of the Indians