Two days after the Lager Beer Riot, on April 23, 1885, Chicago citizens convened at South Market Hall for a public meeting on “law and order.” Attendees appointed a committee to work with the city to ...

(dissonant music) - What the Missouri Compromise does is it places the institution ... which happens in 1820, Maine, and then 1821, Missouri comes in to become a slave state.

Yet by repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which had outlawed slavery everywhere in the Louisiana Purchase north of Missouri’s southern border (except for Missouri itself), the new law ...

While Maine’s statehood is often remembered only in the context of the Missouri Compromise, it was also the culmination ... legislature petitioned Congress for statehood in January 1820. All ...

While Maine’s statehood is often remembered only in the context of the Missouri Compromise ... petitioned Congress for statehood in January 1820. All indications suggested a rapid admission ...

A movement for some Illinois counties to join Indiana threatens to resurrect an ominous practice from the 19th century.

Trump is one of a long line of U.S. officials who’ve threatened annexation. History offers clues as to why they haven’t pulled it off.

In the U.S., almost identical wording appears in the Northwest Ordinance of 1784 and the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Following emancipation, however, former slave states exploited the clause in ...