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 ...

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 ...

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

Major Acts: James Monroe approved the acquisition of Florida from Spain in 1819. Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise in 1820, which allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as ...

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 ...

On Sunday, April 27, at 2 pm, in the lower meeting room of C. H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street, Newtown Historical Society will host a lecture on “The Dred Scott Decision.” Dred Scott was a slave who ...