Name - State of Missouri (English) / État du Missouri (French) / Bundesstaat Missouri (German)

Country - United States of America

Capital - Lowndes [Jefferson]

Head of state and government - Governor --------

Legislature - Legislature - Senate (upper), House of Representatives (lower)

Speaker of the House of Representatives - --------

President of the Senate - ---------

Judiciary - Supreme Court

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court - --------

Form of government - Constituent state of the United States of America under a democratic presidential triramic constitution

Form of law - Brougham Code

Demonym - Missourian

Area -

Largest city - St. Louis

Time zone -

Languages - English, French, German

Population - 20,703,000

Density -

Anthem -

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-under Spanish rule got a great deal of settlement

-American settlers make up three fifths of population in area by 1805

-causes panic which Spanish try to rectify

-with Spanish settlers from Andalusia, Canary Islands coming

-as well as many German Catholics, Italians

-in area they all end up speaking French

-with US's Wars > Luisiana War (1825-8) they fall under American rule

-but laws, French language, respected after District of Missouri established

-and Missouri continues to have French minority by modern day

-statehood becomes big event under American Presidents > 1829-1837 Henry Clay (Republican, then National Republican)

-House votes for it to have condition of banning slavery

-spirals into crisis

-only resolved with Missouri Compromise in 1837

-sees a pretty large amount of Southern settlement in the era

-becomes heavily Southernized by this

-with Liberty and Union War (1868-76) Missouri backs Richmondism

-ends up crushed, a lot of its population flees

-postwar, Missouri sees heavy settlement by Germans

-enough that state ends up speaking German along with other languages