Did you know Iowa and Missouri almost went to war in 1846? This map kind of remoinds me of waht could have been the Iowa-Missouri Border War of 1846.
Missouri clamied all of southern Iowa, Iowa told Missouri to get out. The Iowa Militia was ready to attack the Missouri Militia in southern Iowa when President Polk passed a decree saying Iowa had claim to Southern Iowa.
Heh. The precursor to the precursor to the Civil War.
Nine years later, Missorians flooded into Kansas and went to war
with themselves.