Missouri Territory
| Territory of Missouri | |||||||||||||
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| Organized incorporated territory of the United States | |||||||||||||
| 1812–1821 | |||||||||||||
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 A map of the Territory of Missouri in 1812 | |||||||||||||
| Capital | St. Louis | ||||||||||||
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| • Type | Organized incorporated territory | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
• Renaming of Louisiana Territory | June 4 1812 | ||||||||||||
• Territory of Arkansas created | March 2 1819 | ||||||||||||
• Missouri statehood | August 10 1821 | ||||||||||||
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The Territory of Missouri was a territory of the United States from June 4, 1812 to August 10, 1821. In 1819, the Arkansas Territory was created from a portion of its southern area. In 1821, a southeastern part of the territory became part of the Union as the State of Missouri, and the rest became unorganized territory for several years.
St. Louis was the capital of the Missouri Territory.[1]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "How the City of Jefferson became the State Capital". Archived from the original on 7 February 2005. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
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