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

In 1820, lawmakers developed a compromise that would allow ... stating, “This Missouri question by a geographical line of division is the most portentous one I have ever contemplated.

NORRIS: - the Missouri Compromise of 1820. It was at a time when there was ... In the Louisiana territory, you draw this line at 36°30' and there is no slavery north of the 36°30'.

It highlights key events such as the Missouri Compromise, the Wilmot Proviso, and the Compromise of 1850, which aimed to maintain a balance between North and South regarding slavery. The film also ...

In 1820 the threat to the union was allayed, or at least delayed, with the Missouri Compromise ... Maine was admitted as a free state. A line was drawn at 36 degrees 30 minutes (the southern ...

When the territory of Missouri applied ... The enabling act of March 6, 1820, made it clear, however, that fugitive slaves could be apprehended north of the compromise line and returned to their ...

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On this day in 1820, President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, a measure to keep ... The bill barred slavery in territories north of a line drawn at Missouri’s southern boundary ...

Montgomery Blair's letter to Ex-Secretary Welles, that lie was induced to offer his amendment, repealing the Missouri Compromise, to Judge Douglas' Kansas Nebraska bill. View Full Article in ...

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 ...

Once upon a time the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod was an impregnable fortress for confessional orthodoxy. No longer. Actions at the recent Synod convention in Denver (see News, p. 34 ...