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 ...

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

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 Missouri Compromise allows Maine to separate from Massachusetts and be admitted as a free state; Missouri enters the Union as a slave state; and the remaining territory of the Louisiana ...

Missouri lawmakers are moving forward with efforts to put the St. Louis police force under state control. Gov. Mike Kehoe ...

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 ...

Over 100 people traveled to the Missouri Capitol Monday to testify against bills that would place additional restrictions on ...

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 ...