The $7 billion clean-energy project would stretch from Kansas to Indiana, and is designed to bring wind and solar energy to ...

Was the Missouri Compromise, which allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, an example of that progression of our founding ideals, or was it a step backward? Was Congress ...

St. Louis’s mayor, aldermen, and Greater St. Louis Inc., which promotes economic growth in the St. Louis region, praised a compromise to spend more than a quarter of a billion dollars from the ...

The issue was resolved by a two-part compromise. First, Missouri gained admission to the Union as a slave state, with a provision that portions of the Louisiana Territory lying north of 36' 30 ...

“Missourians are telling us they want compromise,” he said. Failed GOP attempt to keep abortion off Missouri ballot could ...

This bill, if made into law, would repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which said that slavery could not extend above the 36' 30" line. It would open the North to slavery. Northerners were ...

A hell-for-leather Democratic Congress had passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and letting Kansas, Nebraska, and any other future states north of the old ...

Missouri lawmakers are moving forward with efforts to put the St. Louis police force under state control. Gov. Mike Kehoe said this would improve Missouri’s economy and reputation, but the city’s ...

In 1820 the Missouri Compromise was passed to sort out this issue. By 1819, the US was made up of 22 states - evenly split between Slave States and Free States. In November 1819, Missouri ...

Major Acts: The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery within their borders, nullified the Missouri ...