Credit: Courtesy Library of Congress At the same time, a national debate was playing out over the future of chattel slavery in the U.S. Three decades earlier, the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had ...

(dissonant music) - What the Missouri Compromise does is it places the institution ... which happens in 1820, Maine, and then 1821, Missouri comes in to become a slave state.

It highlights key events such as the Missouri Compromise, the Wilmot Proviso, and the Compromise of 1850, which aimed to maintain a balance between North and South regarding slavery. The film also ...

Maine, once part of Massachusetts, came into the Union through the Missouri Compromise of 1820 as "a free state" keeping the balance when Missouri was admitted as "a slave state." None of the 33 ...

In the U.S., almost identical wording appears in the Northwest Ordinance of 1784 and the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Following emancipation, however, former slave states exploited the clause in ...

When the antebellum proposal for the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was begun, the roadmap for Maine statehood was nearly complete. King was chosen to lead a band of elected delegates — Maine’s ...

Incoming Missouri Sen. David Gregory is pictured in this photo when he served in the Missouri House. Facebook/David Gregory State Representative An incoming Missouri Republican lawmaker introduced ...

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 required a border to be established between the free states and the slave states, with slavery outlawed above the 36° 30′ parallel. That is roughly between ...

Before the Civil War, those politics included the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 that established the two areas as territories but repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, according ...

By 1820, those boundaries were identified further when the Missouri Compromise allowed that state to permit slavery, but prohibited such involuntary servitude north of its border. Burlington ...