Missouri Compromise summary:The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was an effort by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to maintain a balance of power between the slaveholding states and free states. The slaveholding states feared that if they became outnumbered in Congressional representation that...
It did not pass, and the crisis over Missouri led to strident calls of disunion and threats of civil war. Congress finally came to an agreement, called the Missouri Compromise, in 1820. Missouri and Maine (which had been part of Massachusetts) would enter the Union at the same time, ...
As the nation continued to expand, Missouri applied to be a state. What should have been a fairly straightforward process, however, was anything but. In fact, the application sparked a constitutional crisis. Missouri’s application threatened to upset the delicate balance between slave and free st...
Explain the impact of American expansionism on Native Americans between 1800 and 1850. Describe the place of Texas in the history of American westward expansion by comparing Texas's early history to the Missouri Crisis in 1819-1820. How did the transcontinental railroad transform the west? How di...
Tawil's hypothesis that the frontier romance of the 1820s, by the very remoteness of its setting, "could engage issues central to the crisis of slavery without discussing it as such ... and generate narrative solutions to political problems" ("Romancing History" 98), I suggest that Cooper'...
As with many elements of the common narratives of the Missouri Secession Crisis, this one is misleading, if not completely false. St. Louis did have “Wide Awakes”, as did most Northern cities. St. Louis was unusual though, in that it was a Southern city that had representatives of the...
1820 -The Missouri statehood controversy became a national issue as the issue of slavery was debated. The "Missouri Compromise" allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, thus keeping the balance of slave and free states equal in Congress. Although ...
The Opioid Crisis in Missouri: A Call to Action for Physicians, Legislators, and Society A multidisciplinary medical provider approach is essential, in addition to legislative efforts to reduce current regulatory burdens that reduce access to MAT in many settings. This review introduces a new Missour...
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… This contrasted dramatically with the more confrontational and incendiary approach taken by Missouri's constitutional convention in 1820" (99). Selected to represent Illinois in the U.S. Senate, Thomas took his seat in the Fifteenth Congress just as the crisis brought on by Missouri's ...