The issue was resolved by a two-part compromise. First, Missouri gained admission to the Union as a slave state, with a provision that portions of the Louisiana Territory lying north of 36' 30 ...

The Missouri House began voting Wednesday morning on budget bills approved by the Senate -- a step in hammering out a ...

Former president Thomas Jefferson, in his late 70s at the time of the Missouri Compromise, once described the difficult situation slavery presented. "We have the wolf by the ears," he declared ...

In 1820 the Missouri Compromise was passed to sort out this issue. By 1819, the US was made up of 22 states - evenly split between Slave States and Free States. In November 1819, Missouri ...

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 kept an uneasy alliance for many years between the North and South. However, when California became a state further compromise had to be created. The Democrat ...

While Maine’s statehood is often remembered only in the context of the Missouri Compromise, it was also the culmination of decades of growing political and cultural divides between Maine and ...

The clock is ticking for Missouri lawmakers to accomplish their only constitutional duty: passing a balanced budget.

A plan to rejuvenate empty office buildings in downtown St. Louis is being held hostage by Missouri Republicans, who want to repeal the state’s new paid sick leave law.