This allowed the Missouri Compromise to become possible, as Missouri and Maine could then be accepted without upsetting the Senate's balance between free and slave states. The compromise admitted ...

and closes his letter with the following report of a subsequent conversation with Mr. DOUGLAS concerning the repeal of the Missouri Compromise: View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

which involves the consitutionality of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Author Stephen Puleo discussed the career and life of abolitionist politician Charles Sumner, who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1851 until his death in 1874. In this ...

Was the Missouri Compromise, which allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, an example of that progression of our founding ideals, or was it a step backward? Was Congress ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 issue was resolved by a two-part compromise. First, Missouri gained admission to the ... The enabling act of March 6, 1820, made it clear, however, that fugitive slaves could be apprehended ...