User-Created Clip by tgrane September 15, 2017 2015-11-01T18:45:34-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/860/1505917824.jpgHarlow GIles Unger discussed the Missouri ...

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 ...

Missouri Compromise: A Win-Win for Clay Sen. Henry Clay, known as "the Great Compromiser," brought about the Missouri Compromise of 1820. House of Representatives historian Robert Remini says Clay ...

Even if they’ve never set foot in Missouri, history students all over the country know about the state because of the compromise made in 1820. Missouri Senator Roy Blunt offered his perspectives ...

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 ...

Even if they’ve never set foot in Missouri, history students all over the country know about the state because of the compromise made in 1820. Missouri Senator Roy Blunt offered his perspectives ...

When the territory of Missouri applied ... The enabling act of March 6, 1820, made it clear, however, that fugitive slaves could be apprehended north of the compromise line and returned to their ...

Montgomery Blair's letter to Ex-Secretary Welles, that lie was induced to offer his amendment, repealing the Missouri Compromise, to Judge Douglas' Kansas Nebraska bill. View Full Article in ...