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	Kansas - USA, Business,Govt,Community,Education,Real-Estate -WorldViewer
		Kansas is a Midwestern state in the Central United States.
		Known as Bleeding Kansas, the state was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided.
		On January 29, 1861 Kansas entered the Union as a free state.
	kansasus.com (827 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kansas Territory (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kansas Territory was a historic, organized territory of the United States that existed from May 30, 1854 to January 29, 1861, when Kansas became the 34th U.S. state.
		Kansas is bordered by Nebraska on the north, Missouri on the east, Oklahoma on the south, and Colorado on the west.
		As of 2004, the population of Kansas was 2,735,502.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kansas-Territory (344 words)

	Kansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kansas, as part of the Louisiana Purchase, was annexed to the United States in 1803 as unorganized territory.
		Kansas had a reputation as a progressive state with many firsts in legislative initiatives—it was the first state to institute a system of workers compensation (1910).
		Kansas was first among the states to ban the concept of separate but equal schools.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kansas (2708 words)

	Cool Things, Kansas Territory seal, Kansas State Historical Society
		Kansas' territorial seal supposedly was engraved by Robert Lovett of Philadelphia from a design developed by Andrew H. Reeder, the first Territorial Governor of Kansas.
		The territorial period (1854-1861) is terribly complex in terms of political history.
		It was transferred to the Kansas Museum of History in a public ceremony during the 1999 legislative session.
	www.kshs.org /cool/coolseal.htm (477 words)

	"Kansas Territory and Its Boundary Question: 'Big Kansas' or 'Little Kansas'" by Calvin W. Gower, Spring 1967
		SOME leaders in the Territory of Kansas in 1858 and 1859 hoped to receive congressional approval for a state of Kansas with a western boundary at the crest of the Rocky mountains in the middle part of present-day Colorado and a northern boundary at the Platte river.
		In January, 1858, in the council of the Kansas legislature one of the delegates introduced a resolution maintaining that the Platte river was the natural boundary between the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and should become the legal boundary between them.
		The final boundaries for the state of Kansas were: In the south, the 37th parallel; for the east, the western boundary of Missouri; in the north, the 40th parallel; and for the west, the 25th parallel of longitude west of Washington (102°).
	www.kshs.org /publicat/khq/1967/67_1_gower.htm (4035 words)

	Kansas History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the 1840's, Kansas lay in the path of the settlers rush to Utah and California.
		South of Kansas was the vast region of Texas and cowboys drove Texas Longhorns to newly built railroads in Kansas.
		In 1972 Kansas voters approved an amendment that increase the terms of governors from two to four years.
	www2.kansas.mcpherson.com /~kansas/history.html (622 words)

	Kansas Territory - (Site not responding. Last check: )
		They were in favor of making Kansas a "Slave State" if it should require half the citizens of Missouri, musket in hand, to emigrate there, and even sacrifice their lives in accomplishing so desirable an end.
		The emigration from the free states flowed into the territory, and settlements were made at various points, too scattered and remote from each other to attract either the attention or the enmity of the pro-slavery partisans, as at Lawrence.
		The first territorial appointments, looking to the inauguration of a local government, under the provisions of the organic law, were made in June and July, 1854.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Kansas_Territory (1081 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Kansas
		Kansas, one of the United States of America, is the central state of the Union, to which it was admitted 29 January, 1861.
		The State of Kansas is not as large as the territory organized under the same name; in area it ranks the eleventh among the states in the Union, and it is nearly ten times as large as Massachusetts.
		Kansas Territory extended westward to the summit of the Rocky Mountains, including a large portion of the present State of Colorado under the name of Arapahoe County.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08597a.htm (5181 words)

	Introduction to Kansas - The United States of America
		The Kansas River was named by the French after the Kansas, Omaha, Kaw, Osage and Dakota Sioux Indian word "KaNze" meaning, in the Kansas language "south wind." The state name for Arkansas shares its origins with Kansas.
		The Squatter State: Kansas was referred to as the "Squatter State" because of the new settlers that flocked into the new territory establishing claims to the land.
		Kansas marks the 34th coin to be issued in the United States Mint’s popular 50 State Quarters® Program, and features a buffalo and sunflower motif, emblematic of the State’s history and natural beauty.
	www.netstate.com /states/intro/ks_intro.htm (1391 words)

	Territorial History, Part 42
		The whole Territory was in a state of insurrection, and a destructive civil war was devastating the country.
		The bona fide inhabitants of the Territory alone are charged with the solemn duty of enacting her laws, upholding her Government, maintaining peace, and laying the foundation for a future commonwealth.
		The Territory of the United States is the common property of the several States, or of the people thereof; this being so, no obstacle should be interposed to the free settlement of this common property, while in a Territorial condition.
	www.kancoll.org /books/cutler/terrhist/terrhist-p42.html (3396 words)

	Bleeding Kansas site photos
		It was perhaps the bloodiest single incident in the Territory and became known as the Marais des Cygne Massaacre.
		This brutal and bloody struggle between free state and pro-slavery factions in Kansas Territory served both as a warning and a chilling prelude for the terrible conflict that soon would engulf the entire country.
		Lecompton-Capital of Kansas Territory Enlarge “In 1855 the new town of Lecompton became the capital of Kansas Territory.
	www.civilwaralbum.com /misc/kansas_bld1.htm (1064 words)

	The Avalon Project : Kansa - Nebraska Act 1854
		An apportionment shall be made, as nearly equal as practicable, among the several counties or districts, for the election of the council and representatives, giving to each section of the Territory representation in the ratio of its qualified voters as nearly as may be.
		And be it further enacted, That the executive power and chin authority in and over said Territory of Kansas shall be vested in a Governor, who shall hold his office for four years, and until his successor shall be appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed by the President of the United States.
		And be it further enacted, That the judicial power of said Territory shall be vested in a supreme court, district courts, probate courts, and in justices of the peace.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/kanneb.htm (1641 words)

	Bleeding Kansas
		“Bleeding Kansas” was a term used by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune to describe the violent hostilities between pro and antislavery forces in the Kansas territory during the mid and late 1850s.
		Under the terms of the act, two territories were to be formed, Kansas and Nebraska.
		Territorial elections were held in 1854 and 1855, in which the proslavery forces won, largely through the violence and intimidation of the so-called “Border Ruffians.” These were Missourans sympathetic to slavery who crossed the border into Kansas to stuff the ballot boxes.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h84.html (1014 words)

	NFL.com - Washington at Kansas City Game Recap (Site not responding. Last check: )
		KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Oct. 16, 2005) -- Jared Allen had a huge day against Washington, with three sacks and two recovered fumbles.
		The Redskins (3-2) drove into Kansas City territory in the final minute and on fourth down with only a few seconds to go, Mark Brunell heaved a pass toward Moss, who was streaking into the corner of the end zone.
		Kansas City has held all three of its home opponents scoreless in the first quarter this year.
	www.nfl.com /gamecenter/recap/NFL_20051016_WAS@KC (871 words)

	Kansas-Nebraska Act on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		By 1854 the organization of the vast Platte and Kansas river countries W of Iowa and Missouri was overdue.
		It was, however, irrevocably bound to the bitter sectional controversy over the extension of slavery into the territories and was further complicated by conflict over the location of the projected transcontinental railroad.
		Four attempts to organize a single territory for this area had already been defeated in Congress, largely because of Southern opposition to the Missouri Compromise.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/KansasN1e.asp (681 words)

	Kansas Territory The Kansas Territorial Experience
		In the mid-1850s, Kansas Territory, the wilderness west of Missouri, opened for settlement.
		As free soil and proslavery emigrants poured into Kansas, a fierce struggle ensued over the volatile issue of slavery.
		The Kansas Territorial Experience, an online public book discussion series and accompanying credit course, celebrates the KT sesquicentennial by capturing the tensions and extraordinary experiences of that era.
	www.kuce.org /kt (156 words)

	Kansas Humanities Council -
		In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act opened the territory for white settlement and gave settlers the right to vote on whether the Kansas Territory would enter the Union as a free or slave state.
		The eyes of the nation turned to Kansas, and the territory became the first battleground for the issues and ideas that eventually engulfed the nation.
		The state motto "Ad Astra Per Aspera" aptly describes the seven-year struggle that led to Kansas entering the Union as a free state in January 1861.
	www.kansashumanities.org /programs/KS_Chautauqua/KSChautauqua.html (183 words)

	The Mormon Trail in Kansas Territory: Pioneer Trails in KS: Kansas Heritage Group
		The Public Land Surveys of Kansas Territory in 1855-60 recorded a "Mormon Road" [Trail] in Osage, Wabaunsee, Geary, Riley, Marshall and Washington Counties whose origin and existence has been largely overlooked by students of Mormon history, as well as emigrant historians in general.
		These Mormons came across Kansas from Kansas City to the site of Ft. Riley, then, turning abruptly to the northwest, crossed what is now the military reservation and traveled on to reach the great main trail across Nebraska to Utah.
		Floyd Wolfenbarger of Manhattan, Kansas, told the author in 1956, that his grandparents had settled in the 1870s in Riley county north of May Day, and that rut swales of the Mormon road still existed in their pasture.
	www.ku.edu /heritage/werner/mormroad.html (1813 words)

	AAA Traveler - Kansas Territory’s sesquicentennial
		W hen the Kansas-Nebraska Act opened up the Kansas Territory for white settlement in 1854 and gave settlers the right to vote on whether the territory would enter the Union as a free or slave state, the region became a battleground for the issues and ideas that eventually engulfed the nation.
		In honor of the Kansas Territory’s sesquicentennial in 2004, cities across the state will hold festivals and events to celebrate their rich heritage.
		The University of Kansas is in the center of town.
	www.ouraaa.com /traveler/0401/fea_prarie_m.html (1339 words)

	Kansas Timeline
		Kansas is organized as a territory, including the eastern half of present-day Colorado.
		Kansas ratifies (1st state to do so) Fifteenth Amendment to U.S. Constitution, "The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any other State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." This gave African-Americans the right to vote.
		Kansas women are granted right to vote in municipal affairs, though not state and federal.
	www.vpcharlescurtis.net /ksstudies/kstimeline1.html (8470 words)

	Kansas Bogus Legislature - Kansas Militia
		On one level, creation of the Kansas Militia on August 31, 1855, was an ordinary action of a territorial legislature.
		In the special circumstances of Kansas Territory, however, with only pro-slavery men appointed as officers (and all the Generals being members of the Bogus Legislature), intimidation of free-staters was clearly intended.
		Fifteen legislators served in the Kansas Militia between 1855 and 1857.
	www.kansasboguslegislature.org /militia (113 words)

	Tragic Prelude, Bleeding Kansas by Karen Zeinert, the story of the conflict between abolitionists and slavery ...
		Then the text clearly illustrates how the question of slavery in Kansas, which was to be determined by the people of the state, became a national issue with groups from the North and the South sending money, arms, militia, and settlers to support the various factions in Kansas.
		So began a conflict which would be called "Bleeding Kansas" for the shocking violence that left over 200 dead as the two sides sparred for control.
		The endless struggle of "Bleeding Kansas" was a bell tolling, a dire warning and a foreshadowing of the catastrophe to come when America went to battle against itself in the Civil War.
	www.shoestringpress.com /books/tragicprelude.html (581 words)

	Territorial Kansas Online - Border Disputes and Warfare
		The U.S. Congress established Kansas Territory in 1854.
		These differences of opinion led to heated debates and even battles in Kansas Territory.
		The conflicts in Kansas and how they were reported in eastern newspapers contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War.
	www.territorialkansasonline.org /cgiwrap/imlskto/index.php?SCREEN=border (117 words)

	Gallery: Bleeding Kansas
		Richard Cordley was at the heart of the troubles in Lawrence during the Bleeding Kansas days, and an eyewitness to the Quantrill Raid in Lawrence.
		The Emigrant Aid Society assisted free-state settlers in relocating to Kansas in large numbers, and alarmed the pro-slavery activists who wanted Kansas to be a slave state.
		Albert Gallatin Barrett moves to Kansas in 1854 with family and friends to establish a home for his family in the new territory and to help bring the new state of Kansas into the Union as a state free from slavery.
	www.kancoll.org /galbks.htm (713 words)

	Bleeding Kansas
		In an era that would come to be known as "Bleeding Kansas," the territory would become a battleground over the slavery question.
		Rumors had spread through the South that 20,000 Northerners were descending on Kansas, and in November 1854, thousands of armed Southerners, mostly from Missouri, poured over the line to vote for a proslavery congressional delegate.
		In 1856 the proslavery territorial capital was moved to Lecompton, a town only 12 miles from Lawrence, a Free State stronghold.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part4/4p2952.html (1284 words)

	Bleeding Kansas
		The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 established the territorial boundaries of Kansas and Nebraska and opened the land to legal settlement.
		It allowed the residents of these territories to decide by popular vote whether their state would be free or slave.
		In Kansas, people on all sides of this controversial issue flooded the territory, trying to influence the vote in their favor.
	www.nps.gov /fosc/bleeding.htm (975 words)

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