Frank Nickell said it is difficult to overestimate the importance of the 1820 Missouri Compromise, the agreement by the U.S. Congress to admit Missouri to the union as a slave state while at the same ...

There was something quaint, like an historical re-enactment, about the bipartisan compromise that resulted from negotiations between congressional Democrats and Republicans to head off another ...

On March 6, 1820, President James Monroe signed into law legislation referred to as the Missouri Compromise, which prohibited slavery in the northern parts of the Louisiana Territory and allowed it in ...

Credit - Interim Archives/) Despite increasing political polarization, evidence suggests that most Americans fundamentally ...