On March 3, 1820, Thomas Jefferson, the nation’s third president, wrote to Monroe, his fellow Virginian, stating, “This Missouri question by a geographical line of division is the most ...

Bullish (Video) The Missouri Compromise: Slavery, Congress, and the 1820 Crisis. Posted: February 24, 2025 | Last updated: March 19, 2025. The film discusses the historical context leading to the ...

The Missouri Compromise 1820 In 1818, the Territory of Missouri submitted application to the United States for statehood. At this time, there were an equal number of senators ...

The Missouri controversy was, of course, settled with a compromise. Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state, and Maine would enter as a free state, but Congress would prohibit slavery in ...

On this day in 1820, President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, a measure to keep the number of slave-holding and free states equal by bringing Missouri into the Union as a slave state ...