It highlights key events such as the Missouri Compromise, the Wilmot Proviso, and the Compromise of 1850, which aimed to maintain a balance between North and South regarding slavery. The film also ...

In an 1850 retrial, the the St Louis circuit court ... The decision also declared the Missouri Compromise of 1820, legislation which restricted slavery in certain territories, unconstitutional.

In a campaign devoid of issues—for example, both parties endorsed the Compromise of 1850—Pierce defeated the Whig Party ... whether to allow slavery within their borders, nullified the Missouri ...

Pierce's strong support for the Comrpromise of 1850 appeared to indicate that ... The Kansas-Nebraska Act effectively nullified the Missouri Compromise, leading to a race to settle Kansas that ...

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 ...