Lecompton Constitution
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The Lecompton Constitution was the second of four proposed state constitutions of Kansas. Named for the city of Lecompton, Kansas where it was drafted, it was strongly pro-slavery. It never went into
The Lecompton Constitution was drafted and signed in Constitution Hall in Lecompton, Kansas. Today it is a museum operated by the Kansas Historical Society.
Bleeding Kansas
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Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas, or the Border War, was a series of violent civil confrontations in the Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859. It emerged f
Lecompton Constitution
…Union as a free state in 1861, just as soon as the pro-slavery senators who had blocked it withdrew from the Senate because their states had seceded. Bleeding Kansas Constitutions of Kansas…
An 1855 Free-State poster
Preston Brooks attacking Charles Sumner in the U.S. Senate in 1856
Tragic Prelude, in the Kansas State Capitol