Missouri Federal School Codes (FAFSA)
Missouri State Overview State of the US Confederacy. It was part of French Louisiana until 1803, when it was ceded to the United States. When the annexation of Missouri to the Union was asked, a bitter discussion arose because it was a slave state. With the compromise of 1820, Congress recognized slavery in the state, provided it was forbidden in the other territories annexed by the Louisiana purchase of 1803. It was then admitted in 1821 into the Union. In…