Plains Indian War Research Paper

Colorado was the 38th state of the U.S. when it joined on August 1, 1876. It is America’s eight largest state. It was first explored by the Spanish in the 1500s and was given to the United States under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican-American in 1848. Because gold was discovered in Colorado, it attracted new settlers that caused conflicts with the Indians. This caused the Plains Indian Wars. Colorado mostly votes for Republicans but sometimes it shifts to Democrats. From 1976 to 1988, all the votes are Republican but it shifted in 1992 when they voted for a democrat. Then again, from 1996 to 2004, they went back to the Republican Party. In the 2008 election, the democrats won by a margin of 53.7% compared to the republican
Even though it was an owned territory, settlement was slow but as the steamboat was invented so did the settlement. There was a controversy over admitting Missouri as a state because the government was unsure about extending slavery to the west. There was already a problem with it being in the current states the U.S. had. However, Missouri was admitted to the United States in 1821 from the Missouri Compromise. The Missouri compromise allowed Missouri to become a slave state if Maine would join the Union as a free state. Because of its location on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, Missouri was an important way of transportation and commerce in back in early America. During the Civil war, most Missourians remained loyal to the Union but some were not. Historically, Missouri hasn’t been glued to one specific party. Although it trended Republican for Theodore Roosevelt, it shifted to the Democratic Party for Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman. Missouri currently has ten electoral votes and with those, it has been trending with the Republican Party. In 1996, the Democratic to Republican vote ratio was 47.5% to 42.2% but in 2000, it was 47.1% to 50.4%. The years increased in the Republican vote but in 2008, Missouri could have shifted to the Democrat party if it wasn’t for the mere 0.1% that permitted the Republican to vote (49.3% to 49.4%). Recently the polls