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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 3, 1820, Congress approved the Missouri compromise, a law that maintained a balance in the Senate between free and slave ...

*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 ...

Sen. Henry Clay, known as "the Great Compromiser," brought about the Missouri Compromise of 1820. House of Representatives historian Robert Remini says Clay's feat resulted from his ability to make ...

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 ...