Missouri

=__Missouri__= Have you ever heard of the Show Me State. Well now you know it's Missouri. Missouri is very interesting. It has it's own river, the Missouri River.

__Natural Resources__
They also have flat plains, cliffs, valleys, streams, natural springs and forests. They have a climate of all four seasons. In spring it can get to 66/44 degrees, in the summer ti can get to 88/66 degrees, in the winter it can get as cold as 23/43 degrees and last is fall, fall can get to 46/68 degrees. In summer Missouri has dangerous rainstorms and tornados. In the winter they have light snow. The size of Missouri is 180,545 square miles. The population is 5,987,580 people. The area is mostly rural.

__Goverment__
State Governor: Jay Nixon (democrat) State Capital: Jefferson City U.S. Senators: Roy Blunt (Republican) Claire Mccaskill (Democrat) U.S. Representatives: # total9 Democrats: 6 Republicans:3 State Senators: 34 State Representatives: Total 163 Countries: 114, plus one independent city

__History__
A historical event is the Dred Scott decision. Scott was a slave and his owner died, he went to court to be freed. Cause his took him to the free states of Illinois and Wisconsin. But the court ruled against him and led to a win.
 * More than 2,000 years ago, Native American mound builders inhabited Missouri
 * AD 1673 French explorers, Marquette and Juliet reached Missouri by sailing down the Missouri River
 * The Native Americans and the French explored here
 * The 24th state in the U.S.A.
 * In 1993 flooding displaced 30,000 people and killed 25 people

__Native Americans__
The three largest tribes were the Osage, Missouri and the Illini. The Osage were known as the fierce warrior. They were divided into clan, living in a pernament villages. Their decendents still reside in the state, but there are no federally reconized tribes on the land or reservation in Missouri.

__State Symbals__

 * Bird: Eastern Blue Bird
 * Tree: Flowering Dogwood
 * Animal: Missouri Mule

__Fun Facts__

 * Walt Disney was born here
 * Chuck Berry, Jesse James, Scott Joplin, Ginger Rogers and Mark Twain lived here too
 * Missouri get's it's name from the Missouri tribe

__Other__

 * Missouri's name means "town of the large canoes."
 * Missouri is called the "show me state" cause in 1899 a congressman said, "I am from Missouri you have to show me"