Two hundred years ago, Northern and Southern politicians came together to sign the Missouri Compromise. The bill, which admitted Missouri to the union as a slave state, Maine as a “free” state ...

At the conclusion of his volume on American Protestantism (1961), noted church historian Winthrop S. Hudson observed that Lutheran denominations have experienced rapid growth rates since World War ...

The Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. This act gave each new state the power to decide whether or not it would be a slave state via the popular vote.

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 kept an uneasy alliance for many years between the North and South. However, when California became a state further compromise had to be created.

In 1820 the Missouri Compromise was passed to sort out this issue. The Missouri Compromise. By 1819, the US was made up of 22 states - evenly split between Slave States and Free States.

Missouri Compromise. Christianity Today January 17, 1969 issue View Issue Subscribe Give ... Evangelicals will be saddened to learn that in the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, ...

New-York and the Missouri Compromise. Share full article. Feb. 20, 1854. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from February 20, 1854, Page 4 Buy Reprints.