A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . slavery in the new territory acquired. Again it was set-tled by the Compromise of 1850, but again it rose to promi-nence when the Kansas-Nebraska bill was passed in 1854. Itwas settled once more in 1857 when Kansas became a free soilterritory but peace between Kansas and Missouri did not , in 1860 the national victory of the Republican partyand the closely following secession from the Union of some ofthe Southern states brought matters to a crisis and
A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . slavery in the new territory acquired. Again it was set-tled by the Compromise of 1850, but again it rose to promi-nence when the Kansas-Nebraska bill was passed in 1854. Itwas settled once more in 1857 when Kansas became a free soilterritory but peace between Kansas and Missouri did not , in 1860 the national victory of the Republican partyand the closely following secession from the Union of some ofthe Southern states brought matters to a crisis and war brokeout. Missouri as a state in the Union was affected by thesecurrents of national life from 1850 to 1860. and as a statebordering on the new Territory of Kansas she was vitally con-cerned. It was during Governor Prices administration thatthe Kansas troubles began. Sterling Price was elected governor of Missouri in served a full, four-year term. Governor Price was anative of Virginia. After coming to Missouri he settled inChariton county where he was a merchant and later a 138 History of Missouri and Missourians. STLKLlNt. rUlCE farmer. He had served in the Mis-souri Legislature and in the IMexican War he suc-cessfully led a regiment of Missouritroops. He was a vei-y popularman, being perhaps the only onetrusted both by the Btnton and theanti-Benton men. He made a goodgovernor, and later at the outbreakof the Civil War he was perhapsthe most beloved man in the his administration theBenton fight continued over theJackson Resolutions. More statefinancial aid was given the rail-roads, the public school system was reorganized, and thestruggle for Kansas began. The new public school law, passedin 1853, was important in providing for a separate state super-intendent of schools and a county school commissioner in eachcounty. The public schools immediately improved and publiceducation advanced rapidly down to the Civil W^ar, whichpractically
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