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The ___MASK42___ Bootheel is the southeasternmost part of the state of ___MASK42___ , extending south of 36 ° 30  north latitude , so called because its shape in relation to the rest of the state resembles the heel of a boot . Strictly speaking , it is composed of the counties of Dunklin , ___MASK35___ , and Pemiscot . However , the term is locally used to refer to the entire southeastern lowlands of ___MASK42___ located within the ___MASK53___ Embayment , which includes parts of Butler , ___MASK53___ , ___MASK100___ , Scott , Stoddard and extreme southern portions of Cape Girardeau and Bollinger counties . The largest city in the region is Kennett . A civil war , also known as an intrastate war in polemology , is a war between organized groups within the same state or country , or , less commonly , between two countries created from a formerly united state . The aim of one ___MASK29___ may be to take control of the country or a region , to achieve ___MASK21___ for a region or to change government policies . The term is a calque of the Latin " bellum civile " which was used to refer to the various civil wars of the ___MASK4___ Republic in the 1st century BC . St . Louis is an independent city and major U . S . ___MASK81___ in the State of Missouri , built along the western bank of the ___MASK53___ River , on the border with Illinois . The city has an estimated 2015 population of 315 , 685 , and is the cultural and economic center of the Greater St . Louis area ( ___MASK23___ to 2 , 916 , 447 people ), making it the largest metropolitan area in Missouri and the 19th - largest in the United States . The ___MASK79___ is the longest river in North America . Rising in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana , the Missouri flows east and south for before entering the ___MASK53___ River north of St . Louis , Missouri . The river takes drainage from a sparsely populated , semi - arid watershed of more than half a million square miles ( 1 , 300 , 000 km ), which includes parts of ten U . S . states and two Canadian provinces . When combined with the lower ___MASK53___ River , it forms the world ' s fourth longest river system . The United States Army ( USA ) is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land - based military operations . It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution , Article 2 , Section 2 , Clause 1 and United States Code , Title 10 , Subtitle B , Chapter 301 , Section 3001 . As the largest and senior branch of the U . S . military , the modern U . S . Army has its roots in the Continental Army , which was formed ( 14 June 1775 ) to fight the American Revolutionary War ( 1775  1783 ) before the U . S . was established as a country . After the Revolutionary War , the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784 , to replace the disbanded Continental Army . The United States Army considers itself descended from the Continental Army , and dates its institutional inception from the origin of that armed force in 1775 . The Congress of the Confederation , or the Confederation Congress , formally referred to as the United States in Congress Assembled , was the governing body of the ___MASK61___ that existed from March 1 , 1781 , to March 4 , 1789 . It comprised delegates appointed by the legislatures or assemblies of the several states . It was preceded by the Second Continental Congress ( 1775  1781 ) and governed under the newly adopted " Articles of Confederation and Perpetual ___MASK50___ ", which were proposed 1776  1777 , adopted by the Continental Congress in July 1778 and finally agreed to by a unanimous vote of all thirteen states by 1781 , held up by a long dispute over the cession of western territories beyond the Appalachian Mountains to the central government led by Maryland and a coalition of smaller states without western claims . The newly reorganized Congress at the time continued to refer itself as the Continental Congress throughout its eight - year history , although modern historians separate it from the earlier bodies , which operated under slightly different rules and procedures until the later part of American Revolutionary War . The membership of the Second Continental Congress automatically carried over to the Congress of the Confederation when the latter was created by the ratification of the Articles of Confederation . It had the same secretary as the Second Continental Congress , namely Charles Thomson . The Congress of the Confederation was succeeded by the Congress of the United States as provided for in the Constitution of the United States , proposed September 17 , 1787 , in ___MASK91___ and ratified by the states through 1787 to 1788 and even into 1789 and 1790 . The Ozarks , also referred to as the Ozark Mountains , Ozarks Mountain Country , and the Ozark Plateau , is a physiographic and geologic highland region of the ___MASK13___ United States , primarily in ___MASK99___ , Missouri and Oklahoma . The Ozarks cover a significant portion of southern Missouri , extending as far northeast as the southwestern suburbs of St . Louis . In ___MASK99___ , a large portion is contained within the northwestern and northcentral region . Much smaller pieces of the Ozarks extend westward into northeastern Oklahoma and extreme southeastern Kansas . The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States fought from 1861 to 1865 . The ___MASK50___ faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of America . The ___MASK50___ won the war , which remains the bloodiest in U . S . history . The ___MASK53___ River is the chief river of the largest drainage system on the North American continent . Flowing entirely in the United States ( although its drainage basin reaches into Canada ), it rises in northern Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for to the ___MASK53___ River Delta at the ___MASK9___ . With its many tributaries , the ___MASK53___ ' s watershed drains all or parts of 31 U . S . states and 2 Canadian provinces between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains . The ___MASK53___ ranks as the fourth longest and fifteenth largest river in the world by discharge . The river either borders or passes through the states of Minnesota , ___MASK98___ , Iowa , Illinois , Missouri , Kentucky , Tennessee , Arkansas , ___MASK53___ , and ___MASK74___ . The Code of Laws of the ___MASK61___ ( variously abbreviated to Code of Laws of the United States , United States Code , U . S . Code , or U . S . C .) is the official compilation and codification of the general and permanent federal statutes of the United States . It contains 52 titles , and a further three titles have been proposed . The main edition is published every six years by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the House of Representatives , and cumulative supplements are published annually . The official version of those laws not codified in the United States Code can be found in United States Statutes at Large . Terrorism is , in its broadest sense , the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror or fear , in order to achieve a political , religious , or ideological aim . It is classified as fourth - generation warfare and as a violent crime . In modern times , terrorism is considered a major threat to society and therefore illegal under anti - terrorism laws in ___MASK48___ jurisdictions . It is also considered a war crime under the laws of war when used to target non - combatants , such as civilians , neutral military personnel , or enemy prisoners of war . The Ku Klux Klan ( KKK ), or simply " the Klan ", is the name of three distinct movements in the United States that have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy , white nationalism , anti - immigration , and , especially in later iterations , Nordicism , anti - Catholicism , and antisemitism . Historically the KKK used terrorism , both physical assault and murder , against groups or individuals whom they opposed . All three movements have called for the " purification " of American society , and all are considered right ___MASK16___ extremist organizations . The Confederate States , officially the Confederate States of America ( CSA or C . S .), commonly referred to as the Confederacy , was an unrecognized breakaway country of 11 secessionist slave states existing from 1861 to 1865 . It was originally formed by seven slave states  ___MASK6___ , ___MASK53___ , Florida , Alabama , Georgia , ___MASK74___ , and Texas  in the Lower South region of the United States whose regional economy was mostly dependent upon agriculture , particularly cotton , and a plantation system that relied upon the labor of African - American slaves . The tallgrass prairie is an ecosystem native to ___MASK13___ North America . Natural and anthropogenic fire , as well as grazing by large mammals ( primarily bison ), were historically agents of periodic disturbance , which regulates tree encroachment , recycles nutrients to the soil , and catalyzes some seed dispersal and germination processes . Prior to widespread use of the steel plow , which enabled conversion to agricultural land use , tallgrass prairies expanded throughout the American Midwest and smaller portions of southern ___MASK13___ ___MASK8___ , from the transitional ecotones out of eastern North American forests , west to a climatic threshold based on precipitation and soils , to the southern reaches of the Flint Hills in ___MASK51___ , to a transition into forest in ___MASK41___ . The ___MASK61___ has seven federal uniformed services that commission officers as defined by Title 10 , and subsequently structured and organized by Title 10 , Title 14 , Title 32 and Title 42 of the United States Code . The Continental Army was formed by the Second Continental Congress after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became the ___MASK61___ . Established by a resolution of the Congress on June 14 , 1775 , it was created to coordinate the military efforts of the Thirteen Colonies in their revolt against the rule of Great Britain . The Continental Army was supplemented by local militias and troops that remained under control of the individual states or were otherwise independent . General ___MASK20___ ___MASK85___ was the commander - in - chief of the army throughout the war . ___MASK56___ is a U . S . state located in the Midwestern United States . Its capital is ___MASK40___ and its largest city is Wichita . ___MASK56___ is named after the Kansa Native American tribe , which inhabited the area . The tribe ' s name ( natively "") is often said to mean " people of the wind " or " people of the south wind ", although this was probably not the term ' s original meaning . For thousands of years , what is now ___MASK56___ was ___MASK23___ to numerous and diverse Native American tribes . Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys . Tribes in the western part of the state were semi - nomadic and hunted large herds of bison . ___MASK42___ ( see pronunciations ) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States , achieving statehood in 1821 . With over six million residents , it is the eighteenth ___MASK48___ populous state and host to the mean center of United States population . The largest urban areas are St . Louis , ___MASK90___ , Springfield , and Columbia . The capitol is in Jefferson City on the ___MASK79___ . The state is the twenty - first ___MASK48___ extensive by area and is geographically diverse . The Northern ___MASK72___ were once covered by glaciers , then tallgrass prairie , and now the deep soils yield great agricultural productivity . In the South are the Ozarks , a forested highland , providing timber , minerals , and recreation . The Mississippi River forms the eastern border of the state , eventually flowing into the swampy ___MASK42___ Bootheel . The American Revolutionary War ( 17751783 ), also referred to as the American War of ___MASK21___ and the Revolutionary War in the United States , was an armed conflict between Great Britain and thirteen of its North American colonies that after onset of the war declared ___MASK21___ as the ___MASK61___ . Secession ( derived from the Latin term " secessio ") is the withdrawal of a group from a larger entity , especially a political entity ( a country ), but also any organization , ___MASK50___ or military ___MASK30___ . Threats of secession can also be a strategy for achieving more limited goals . Lewis Merrill ( 1834 -- 1896 ) was a career officer in the United States Army noted for his work in resisting the early Ku Klux Klan organization in several Southern states . During the American Civil War , he combated guerrillas in ___MASK42___ .