On this day in 1820, President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, a measure aimed at keeping the number of slave-holding and free states equal. The deal brought Missouri into the Union ...

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 ...

In 1820, the Missouri Compromise made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state. In their book, A Fire Bell in the Past, authors Jeffrey Pasley and John Craig Hammond examined the events ...

The Black Republican papers have times without number stated that Mr. MADISON had given it as his opinion that the Missouri Compromise was ... Feb. 28,1820, to Mr. MONROE, speaks for itself.

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 had divided the country between the pro-slavery South and the anti-slavery North, according to a May 2020 USA Today fact-check. That compromise was instituted more ...

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 had divided the country between the pro-slavery South and the anti-slavery North, according to a May 2020 USA TODAY fact-check. That compromise was put into place ...

For decades, starting with the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Congress had used its authority over the vast territories to reach compromises that saved the union by admitting some states as free and ...

Major Acts: The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery within their borders, nullified the Missouri ...