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 ...

This meant the old Missouri Compromise was no longer legal. Southerners loved the idea Northerners hated it Kansas and Nebraska became a battle ground Anti-slavery leaders formed the Republican ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 required a border to be established between the free states and the slave states, with slavery outlawed above the 36° 30′ parallel. That is roughly between ...

Passed in 1820, the Missouri Compromise temporarily quelled the rising tensions when it maintained the balance between slave ...

The Compromise of 1787 During the Constitutional Convention, delegates debated how to elect the president. Northern delegates, generally opposed to slavery, argued for a system based solely on the ...