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The history of the Kansas City metropolitan area relates to the area around the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers and the modern-day city of Kansas City, Missouri. Before the arrival of European explorers, the area was inhabited at various times by peoples of the Hopewell tradition and later the Mississippian culture , as well as the ...
Johnston Lykins (April 15, 1800 – August 15, 1876) was a pioneering Baptist missionary to Native American tribes, and a founding civic booster in the frontier boomtowns of West Port and Kansas, Missouri, which combined and became Kansas City, Missouri.
François Gesseau Chouteau (February 7, 1797 – April 18, 1838) was an American pioneer fur trader, entrepreneur, and community leader known as the "Father of Kansas City". He was born in St. Louis , established the first fur trading post in the wild frontier of western Missouri, and settled the area that became Kansas City, Missouri .
America’s founding motto was “E Pluribus Unum” (out of one many) but in the 1950s religious zealots changed that to “in God we trust” and inserted “under God” into the secular Pledge ...
The Rev. Dr. Stephen D. Jones is co-pastor of First Baptist Church in Kansas City and chairperson of MORE2’s campaign “Call to the Beloved Community, Resisting White Christian Nationalism ...
The city of Kansas City formed by merger of Westport and City of Kansas. [1] Electric streetcars begin replacing cable cars. Kansas City Public Library building opens. [13] 1890 - Population: 132,716. [7] 1892 August Meyer appointed president of the city's first park board. Kansas City's Parks and Boulevard system is designed by George Kessler.
Christian Nationalists sometimes claim their beliefs are echoed in the Constitution and American law. They claim the Founding Fathers didn’t want a “wall of separation between church and state.”
The town of Kansas, Missouri, was incorporated on June 1, 1850, reincorporated and renamed City of Kansas on March 28, 1853, and renamed Kansas City in 1889.The area straddles the border between Missouri and Kansas at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, and was considered a good place to settle.