The Missouri Compromise (also known as the Compromise of 1820) was a federal legislation of the United States that balanced desires of northern states...

the Missouri Compromise, which was used to divide the prospective slave and free states west of the Mississippi River, with the exception of Missouri, which...

been banned because the Missouri Compromise outlawed slavery in the territory north of latitude 36°30' north (except for Missouri). To win the support of...

as part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Many from Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee settled in the Boonslick area of Mid-Missouri. Soon after, a heavy...

southern border and to cede Alta California and New Mexico. The Missouri Compromise had settled the issue of the geographic reach of slavery within the...

Constitution in 1787, the subject of political crises in the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 and was the primary cause of the American Civil...

slavery in the District of Columbia. It proposed re-instating the Missouri Compromise (which had been functionally repealed in 1854 by the Kansas–Nebraska...

Inflexible stance on a political issue Missouri Compromise – 1820 United States federal legislation Three-Fifths Compromise – Superseded US Constitution clause...

Congress passed legislation known as the "Missouri Compromise" that was intended to resolve the dispute. The Compromise first admitted Maine into the Union...

in American history, ranking just below the better known Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850." Politicians at the federal and the state levels...