On this day in 1820, President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, a measure aimed at keeping the number of slave-holding and free states equal. The deal brought Missouri into the Union as a ...

*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 ...

Question: What person in American history became known as The Great Compromiser? In fact, two key legislative acts he helped form were referred to as the Compromise of 1820 and, 30 years later, the ...

In the summer of 1787, 55 delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies (all except Rhode Island) met in Philadelphia to revise the weak Articles of Confederation under which the colonies had operated during ...

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 ...

The guest column writer, David Goldfield, blames politics and religion fueling unjust slaughter (“Civil War's lesson,” July 22). He claims the slaughter of 750,000 people could have been prevented by ...

On this day in 1820, President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, a measure to keep the number of slave-holding and free states equal by bringing Missouri into the Union as a slave state ...