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 ...

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 an uneasy alliance for many years between the North and South. However, when California became a state further compromise had to be created. The Democrat ...

As the nation expanded westward, the dispute over slavery intensified. Citizens of Southern slave states clashed with Northern activists who were morally opposed to slavery. Would the new ...

Settlers from the South wanted to move to the West and take their enslaved workers with them Northerners wanted to stop the spread of slavery As new states were created, the issue of slavery ...