The Compromise of 1850 was pretty much a direct result of the Missouri Compromise. The split down the middle of the country mandated by the Missouri Compromise was immediately recognized as a poten...

What's this? An actual attempt to resolve the issue of slavery in America? That's right. We know, we're shocked as well.It took the largest war in U.S. history to get it done, but good ol' Honest A...

The act that would come to supersede the Missouri Compromise right before it ceased to matter at all. Passed in 1854, the Kansas Nebraska Act was initially intended to address the issue of the many...

A failed compromise proposed on the eve of the Civil War by Senator John J. Crittenden. The goal of the compromise was to prevent civil war and bring an end to the slavery issue once and for all. I...

The final nail in the Missouri Compromise's coffin, this Supreme Court Case struck down the Compromise as unconstitutional based on the grounds that any "negro, whose ancestors were imported into [...