Vic's Moor News 2018 Mar 6

…On this day in 1820 the Missouri Compromise was signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brought Maine into the Union as a free state, and made the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free. This was hailed as a great compromise but it only delayed the inevitable for a few more years. It did not satisfy the firebrands on either side.