He said the South would accept nothing less than extending the Missouri compromise line west to the Pacific Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

In return,he had to promise that the mail would travel from Saint Louis,Missouri, to San Francisco,California, in twenty-five days or less.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

For the past four years, Al Wiman has organized a monthly science cafe for the Saint Louis Science Center in Missouri.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

Douglas argued that the compromise of eighteen fifty took the place of the earlier Missouri compromise of eighteen twenty.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

Scott was sold in Missouri to an army doctor who took him to Illinois and then went into the Wisconsin territory.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

The researchers included Laura Naumann of Sonoma State University in California, and Simine Vazire of Washington University in Saint Louis,Missouri.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

Lincoln also needed the support of the four slave states that had not left the Union: Delaware,Kentucky,Maryland and Missouri.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

He admitted that the old Missouri compromise of eighteen twenty had limited the right to take slaves into the territories.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

It was free because Congress -- in the Missouri Compromise of Eighteen Twenty -- made slavery illegal in that area.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

And they discuss his influence in the Supreme Court ruling in the case of a slave from Missouri named Dred Scott.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

The Santa Fe Trail began in the state of Missouri, the nineteenth century gateway to the wild and largely unexplored West.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

A businessman named William Becknell believed he could earn a lot of money by moving trade goods from Missouri to Santa Fe.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

It said the Missouri Compromise was a violation of the United States Constitution, and that Dred Scott was not a free man.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

There were some who thought the earlier Missouri Compromise could be used to settle the issue of slavery in California,Oregon,and New Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

They proposed that the line of the Missouri Compromise be pushed west,all the way to the Pacific Coast.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

There could be two more. No one knew how long Kentucky and Missouri would remain in the Union.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

And once each month, mail would arrive in California after a slow trip by wagon from Saint Louis,Missouri.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

There are small events, like Poetic Voices, a performance by the best teenage poets of Cass County,Missouri.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

Jack Strauss at Saint Louis University in Missouri says recent recoveries have been slow to create jobs.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

An investigation found that people from the neighboring state of Missouri had voted in the elections illegally.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

For the next four years, he worked mainly in Kansas City,Missouri, where jazz music had become popular.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

Joseph Smith was forced to move his people from New York to Ohio and then to Missouri.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

Ivan Jimenez of the Missouri Botanical Garden says he likes the chance to talk about his work with people outside the scientific community.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

This week in our series, Rich Kleinfeldt and Shirley Griffith tell more about the long disputed issue of slavery and the Kansas-Missouri bill.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Scientists believe sandals found in the Arnold Research Cave in the American state of Missouri are about seven thousand five hundred years old.

VOA: special.2010.08.03