The property taxes that you pay are used for a number of things such as road construction, the police and fire department, and organized recreation in your area.
Minnesota is known as The Land of 10,000<span> Lakes and officially there are </span>11,842<span> lakes more than ten acres (</span>40,000<span> m²) in size.
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Yes they captured and questioned him at gunpoint.
It allowed Missouri and then Maine (which also applied for statehood) to become states. A lot of states were on the edge on wether to admit or not allow a state that allows slavery into the states. In the end - both were admitted and became states. However, Missouri was left as a slave state and Maine was set as a free state.
