Missouri Compromise

Bibliography

Books

• Forbes, Robert Pierce. The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath: Slavery and the Meaning of America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
• Freehling, William W. The Road to Disunion, Vol. 1: Secessionists at Bay, 1776–1854. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Hall, Matthew W. Dividing the Union: Jesse Burgess Thomas and the Making of the Missouri Compromise. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2015.
• Howe, Daniel Walker. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• Remini, Robert V. Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.

Articles

• Hammond, John Craig. “President, Planter, Politician: James Monroe, the Missouri Crisis, and the Politics of Slavery.” Journal of American History 105, no. 4 (March 2019): 843–67.
• Mason, Matthew. “The Maine and Missouri Crisis: Competing Priorities and Northern Slavery Politics in the Early Republic.” Journal of the Early Republic 33, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 675–700.

Websites

• “Clay, Henry.” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000482. Accessed on November 11, 2020.
• “Tallmadge, James, Jr.” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000031. Accessed on November 11, 2020.
• “Taylor, John W.” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000091. Accessed on November 11, 2020.
• “Thomas, Jesse Burgess.” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000171. Accessed on November 11, 2020.