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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SPRINGFIELD, Mo.- Race and politics are ...

Outerbridge Horsey, the Delaware senator with an unusual first name, faced a dilemma. The question before the United States Senate would have far-reaching consequences; and Horsey could vote as the ...

When the territory of Missouri applied for admission to statehood, the Congress and the nation were confronted with a unique substantive question that had far-reaching implications both for the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo.- Race and politics are certainly part of the news today. But these issues go back so far, they’ve been part of Missouri’s story since the beginning. The founding of the state and the ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A depiction of a slave auction outside the old St. Louis County Courthouse. More than 530 slaves were sold outside the courthouse ...

The act of the federal Legislature that provided for Missouri statehood and a convention to draft a state constitution was approved by President James Monroe on March 6, 1820. In one of the paragraphs ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KY3) - Tuesday, August 10 marks the bicentennial of Missouri’s entry as the 24th state to enter the United States. U.S. Congress allowed for admission of Missouri as the 24th ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Race and politics are ...