[Great American Fact Finder]
Missouri Compromise 
(March 3, 1820), legislation dealing with the extension of slavery to new areas of the country. When Missouri applied for admission to the Union, the balance of slave and free states was eleven each, which meant that slave and free states had equal representation in the Senate. Admitting Missouri as a […]

What is going on with the Louisiana Purchase? [The Great American History Fact-Finder]
(1803), the acquisition from France of the area between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains on the east and west and between Canada and the Gulf of Mexico on the north and south. A major achievement of President Thomas Jefferson, the $15 […]