Creative thought matters because it is creating the future. And thatâs what Skidmore is all about. Founded in 1903, Skidmore College is an independent, coeducational, liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., which prides itself on its creative approaches to just about everything. Hence the collegeâs core belief that Creative Thought Matters.
The crisis over Missouri Compromise exposed the divisions of the  country on the contentious issue of slavery. The line that  literally divided the territories that would beâ¦come states put the  Union into a precarious balance that could easily tip in favor of  the slave states.
Henry Clay, a leading congressman, played a crucial role in brokering a two-part solution known as the Missouri Compromise. First, Missouri would be admitted to the union as a slave state, but would be balanced by the admission of Maine, a free state, that had long wanted to be separated from Massachusetts.Second, slavery was to be excluded from all new states in the Louisiana Purchase north of the southern boundary of Missouri.n an attempt to keep a legislative balance between the pro-and anti-slavery factions, the Missouri Compromise delineated which states would be free and which would not. African Americans obviously opposed slavery and news of some congressional opposition to its expansion circulated widely within slave communities.