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

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 kept an uneasy alliance for many ... would choose for themselves whether they would become slave or free states. This meant the old Missouri Compromise was no ...

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 ...

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, brokered by House speaker Henry Clay of Kentucky, allowed statehood for the territory of Missouri as a slave state while admitting Maine (previously part of ...

Next is Franklin Pierce.Prior to becoming the 14th president, Pierce served in the New Hampshire legislature as a ...

framed a new idea that slavery was for the “positive good.” Major Acts: James Monroe approved the acquisition of Florida from Spain in 1819. Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise in 1820, which ...

Alternative facts have always been with us, and they've always been used to cover up uncomfortable truths. Here's some ...

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 ...

Slaves command a higher price in Kentucky, taking gold as the standard of value, than in any other of the Southern States. In Missouri they are sold at from forty dollars to four hundred ...

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 ...