The United States acquired the land that would become the state of Missouri as part of the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803. This massive 828,000 square miles of land was purchased for $15 million, approximately four cents per acre. The Louisiana Purchase more than doubled the size of the United States and included present-day Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, parts of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, and Minnesota.
Personally, when I hear this name, I can only remember the word inappropriate relationship. Bill Clinton before becoming president Bill Clinton was born in Arkansas in 1946. Bill is his nickname, like William Jefferson Clinton, Jimmy Carters real name. He is actually the first president born
After the First World War, a new world order was established, in which the United States, as a military and economic power, became the largest producer and exporter in the world. The profits obtained from abroad increased day by day, and Wall Street decided to turn its policy around and invest in th
On August 2, 1990, elite Iraqi Republican Guard troops invaded Kuwait. A lightning operation - in two days they had taken the entire country - that caught the international community by surprise. Although Iraq had been critical of the increase in Kuwaiti oil production that was keeping prices low an
It is difficult to understand, now that an African-American resides in the White House and holds the most powerful position in the world, that until relatively few years ago in the United States there was a policy of racial segregation based on regulations such as those known as the Jim Crow Laws, w