Examines the build-up to the Civil War: slavery, the Missouri Compromise, abolitionism, and key events like the Dred Scott ...

and closes his letter with the following report of a subsequent conversation with Mr. DOUGLAS concerning the repeal of the Missouri Compromise: View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

St. Louis’s mayor, aldermen, and Greater St. Louis Inc., which promotes economic growth in the St. Louis region, praised a compromise to spend more than a quarter of a billion dollars from the ...

Lincoln, worried that conciliatory overtures toward the South would appear weak, employed a preinaugural strategy of ...

A very large portion of our space this morning is occupied by the report of the meeting held at the Tabernacle last evening, to protest against the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The meeting ...

But the Speaker of the House, Henry Clay from Kentucky – aka the “Great Compromiser” – was able to broker the Missouri Compromise. The idea, this time, was that Missouri would become a ...

Students need to understand how the Missouri Compromise created the northernmost slave-owning state in the Union. Library of Congress, loc.gov Our nation heads into this Black History Month with ...

And if we listen closely, we can hear a clear warning. Your humanity is at risk. Your family and community will suffer following the legislature reducing wages and preventing women's healthcare and ...

(which in Missouri is actually the county’s administrative ... this made him palatable to C.I.O. as a compromise choice. He has voted as a liberal on Negro measures, such as anti-polltax measures.

Professor Wilhelm Oesch of the synodically-related Lutherische Theologische Hochschule in Germany has said of the Missouri compromise: “Missouri is not the great exception at the end of all ...

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 ...