On this day in 1820, President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, a measure aimed at keeping the number of slave-holding and free states equal. The deal brought Missouri into the Union as a ...

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 ...

Sen. Henry Clay, known as "the Great Compromiser," brought about the Missouri Compromise of 1820. House of Representatives historian Robert Remini says Clay's feat resulted from his ability to make ...

In 1818, the Territory of Missouri submitted application to the United States for statehood. At this time, there were an equal number of senators (22) in the United States Senate from both free and ...