The issue was resolved by a two-part compromise. First, Missouri ... a slave state, with a provision that portions of the Louisiana Territory lying north of 36' 30' north latitude would be free.

The film discusses the historical context leading to the American Civil War, focusing on the sectional tensions between free and slave states from 1818 to 1861. It highlights key events such as ...

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 kept ... choose for themselves whether they would become slave or free states. This meant the old Missouri Compromise was no longer legal. Southerners loved the ...

statesman and orator Henry Clay worked out a compromise of three parts: Maine would separate from Massachusetts and be admitted as a free state; Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state ...

It has been announced, by authority, that this great measure of the Administration is to receive the vote of every Whig Senator from the Slave-holding States. Those States are, therefore ...