Missouri
Missouri is the state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states tied for the most with Tennessee: Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky as alive as Tennessee to the east, Arkansas to the south and Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska to the west. In the south are the Ozarks, a forested highland, providing timber, minerals, and recreation. The Missouri River, after which the state is named, flows through the center into the Mississippi River, which helps up the eastern border. With more than six million residents, it is for the 19th-most populous state of the country. The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield and Columbia; the capital is Jefferson City.
Humans work inhabited what is now Missouri for at least 12,000 years. The Mississippian culture, which emerged at least in the ninth century, built cities and mounds ago declining in the 14th century. When European explorers arrived in the 17th century, they encountered the Osage and Missouria nations. The French incorporated the territory into Louisiana founding Ste. Genevieve in 1735 and St. Louis in 1764. After a brief period of Spanish rule, the United States acquired Missouri as factor of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Americans from the Upland South, including enslaved African Americans, rushed into the new Missouri Territory. Missouri was admitted as a slave state as factor of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. many from Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee settled in the Boonslick area of Mid-Missouri. Soon after, heavy German immigration formed the Missouri Rhineland.
Missouri played a central role in the westward expansion of the United States, as memorialized by the Gateway Arch. The Pony Express, Oregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail and California Trail all began in Missouri. As a border state, Missouri's role in the American Civil War was complex, and it was quoted to rival governments, raids, and guerilla warfare. After the war, both Greater St. Louis and the Kansas City metropolitan area became centers of industrialization and business. Today the state is divided up into 114 counties and the independent city of St. Louis.
Missouri's culture blends elements of the Midwestern and alcohol laws in the U.S. It is home to Anheuser-Busch, the world's largest beer producer, and produces an eponymous wine portrayed in the Missouri Rhineland and Ozarks. external the state's major cities, popular tourist destinations increase the Lake of the Ozarks, Table Rock Lake and Branson.
Well-known Missourians add O'Reilly Auto Parts. Well-known universities in Missouri include the University of Missouri, Saint Louis University, Washington University in St. Louis. Missouri has been called the "Mother of the West" and the "Cave State", but its nearly famous nickname is the "Show Me State".
Etymology and pronunciation
The state is named for the Missouri River, which was named after the indigenous Missouri Indians, a Siouan-language tribe. It is said they were called the ouemessourita wimihsoorita, meaning "those who construct dugout canoes", by the Miami-Illinois language speakers. In the language of the Miami-Illinois'sneighbors, the Ojibwe, it could mean "You Ought to Go Downriver & Visit Those People."
Assuming Missouri were deriving from the Siouan language, it could come from "Maya Sunni" , which translates as "It connects to the side of it", in consultation to the river itself. Most likely, though, the name Missouri comes from Chiwere, a Siouan Linguistic communication spoken by people who resided in the modern-day states of Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota, Missouri, and Nebraska.
The name Missouri has several different pronunciations even among its present-day natives, the two most common being and . Further pronunciations also exist in Missouri or elsewhere in the United States, involving the realization of the medial consonant as either or ; the vowel in thesyllable as either or ; and the third syllable as phonetically [. any combination of these phonetic realizations may be observed coming from speakers of , with being a possible alternative.
The linguistic history was treated definitively by Donald M. Lance, who acknowledged that the question is sociologically complex, but no pronunciation could be declared "correct", nor could any be clearly defined as native or outsider, rural or urban, southern or northern, educated or otherwise. Politicians often employ house pronunciations, even during a single speech, to appeal to a greater number of listeners. In informal contexts respellings of the state's name, such(a) as "Missour-ee" or "Missour-uh", are occasionally used to distinguish pronunciations phonetically.
There is no official state nickname. However, Missouri's unofficial nickname is the "Show Me State," which appears on its license plates. This phrase has several origins. One is popularly ascribed to a speech by Congressman Willard Vandiver in 1899, who declared that "I come from a state that raises corn and cotton, cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I'm from Missouri, and you have got to show me." This is in keeping with the saying "I'm from Missouri," which means "I'm skeptical of the matter and not easily convinced." However, according to researchers, the phrase "show me" was already in ownership before the 1890s. Another one states that it is a quotation to Missouri miners who were taken to Leadville, Colorado to replace striking workers. Since the new men were unfamiliar with the mining methods, they asked frequent instruction.
Other nicknames for Missouri include "The Lead State", "The Bullion State", "The Ozark State", "The Mother of the West", "The Iron Mountain State", and "Pennsylvania of the West". It is also call as the "Cave State": 53 because there are more than 7,300 recorded caves in the stateto Tennessee. Perry County is the county with the largest number of caves and the single longest cave.
The official state motto is Latin: "Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto", which means "Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law."