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Title: Missouri Question: Debate in the House of Representatives
Description: Federal congressional debates on the impending admission of Missouri as a state of the Union with comparisons to previous admissions of other states, etc.
Date: 1820-03-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Missouri Question
Description: Speeches by Rufus King in 1817 on the "Missouri question," or the issue of admitting Missouri to the Union as a slave state or free state. Comparisons of its situation with previous French and Spanish governments, etc.
Date: 1819-12-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Progress Westward
Description: Article about the progress in exploration and settlement along the Missouri River, with tables of distances and river tributaries along its length "taken from Lewis and Clark's Travels," etc.
Date: 1819-07-17
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Missouri Question: Debate in the Senate
Description: Federal senatorial debates on the "Missouri question," or the issue of admitting Missouri to the Union as a slave state or free state. Discussion on the potential effects on the nation with slavery admitted or not admitted west of the Mississippi River, etc.
Date: 1820-02-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Eighteenth Congress--2d Session
Description: Reprint of the Second Session of the 18th Congress of the United States, dealing in part with the establishment of the Santa Fe Trail and trade of furs, hemp, etc.
Date: 1825-01
Object Type: Magazine Article