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	Lecompton, Kansas -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Lecompton is a city located in (Click link for more info and facts about Douglas County) Douglas County, (A state in midwestern United States) Kansas, (The army of the United States of America; organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare) USA.
		Lecompton was founded in 1854 and platted on a bluff on the south bank of the (A river in northeastern Kansas; flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River) Kansas River.
		Lecompton was considered the center of the pro-slavery movement, which of course was unsuccessful.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/lecompton,_kansas.htm (1115 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kansas
		The 3rd Congressional District of Kansas is a congressional district in eastern Kansas.
		Kansas had a reputation as a progressive state with many firsts in legislative initiativesâ”it was the first state to institute a system of workers compensation (1910).
		Among the state-funded universities, the University of Kansas (KU) is the largest in terms of enrollment, with 26,980 at its Lawrence campus, KU Edwards Campus in Overland Park, and Public Management Center (formerly the Capitol Complex) in Topeka.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kansas (9663 words)

	Lecompton, Kansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lecompton is a city located in Douglas County, Kansas, USA.
		Lecompton played a major historical role as the seat of the pro-slavery Kansas faction during Bleeding Kansas in the 1850s.
		Lecompton was founded in 1854 and platted on a bluff on the south bank of the Kansas River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lecompton,_Kansas (922 words)

	Kansas - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Kansas, as part of the Louisiana Purchase, was annexed to the United States in 1803 as unorganized territory.
		Kansas was first among the states to ban the concept of separate but equal schools.
		Kansas is bordered by Nebraska on the north, Missouri on the east, Oklahoma on the south, and Colorado on the west.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Kansas (1279 words)

	Lecompton Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Named after a small town in Douglas County, Kansas, The Lecompton Constitution was one of four proposed Kansas state constitutions.
		Despite the proviso, the Constitution was rejected by Kansans, and Kansas was admitted to the Union as a free state in 1861.
		The Lecompton Constitutional Convention was held on September, 1857 in Lecompton, Kansas Territory.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lecompton_Constitution (415 words)

	Lecompton, Kansas - brought to you by LASR - Leisure And Sport Review
		Lecompton, KS The City of Lecompton was founded in 1854.
		The population of Lecompton reached 4,000 and was dubbed the "Wall Street of the West" by settlers, politicians and land speculators.
		Lecompton has put aside its turbulent past and is now a delightfully quiet, pretty place and the people are proud of their part in the history of Kansas and the nation.
	www.lasr.net /pages/city.php?City_ID=KS0301017 (324 words)

	Lecompton, Kansas (Cities)
		The city is NW of Lawrence between Topeka and Lawrence on the banks of the historic Kaw or Kansas River.
		Lecompton, was founded on a 640-acre Wyandotte Indian land claim, and was originally named Bald Eagle because of the many eagles that nested along the Kansas River.
		The territorial legislature chose Lecompton to be the capital of Kansas Territory in August, 1855.
	www.ohwy.com /ks/l/lecompto.htm (181 words)

	Lecompton on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution was formulated (Sept., 1857) there, and was ratified (Dec., 1857) after an election in which voters were given a choice only between limited or unlimited slavery; free state men refused to cast their ballots.
		President James Buchanan urged Congress to admit Kansas as a slave state under the Lecompton Constitution, but Stephen A. Douglas and his followers broke with the pro-slavery Democrats, and the bill could not pass the House.
		Kansas was later (1861) admitted as a free state.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/Lecompto.asp (398 words)

	Abolition Activism in Wisconsin
		A number of prisoners were arrested by Gov. Geary and confined at Lecompton on a charge of murder in the first degree on the 1st instant.
		The wild history of unhappy Kansas has recorded many a more startling and horrifying death than this, but there is something in its peculiar character, which writes "despotism" in letters of fire upon the crime.
		This gentleman visited all settled portions of Kansas, and everywhere he had visible proof that sickness and hunger had followed, as is usual, in the train of war.
	www.wlhn.org /topics/abolition/kansas/1857_lecomptonprison.htm (1236 words)

	Gold Fever in Kansas Territory: Migration to the Pike's Peak Gold Fields, 1858-1860 by Calvin W. Gower, Spring, 1973
		The Lecompton group was supposed to establish a county government in the gold fields.
		Kansas people were also active in the organizing efforts of Presbyterians and Catholics in the mining area.
		Lecompton Kansas National Democrat, April 5, 1860; letter to the editor, June 18, 1860, in Denver Rocky Mountain News, July 4, 1860; A. Richardson to the editor August 7, 1860, in Lawrence Republican, August 23, 1860.
	www.kshs.org /publicat/khq/1973/73_1_gower.htm (7291 words)

	Kansas Territorial Sesquicentennial Commission, Bibliography - Constitution Making
		The overwhelming electoral success of the Wyandotte Constitution in October 1859 changed the nature of the political debate in Kansas Territory but did not, as Cheatham demonstrates, mean an end to the “opposition,” which continued until the eve of the Civil War to oppose key provisions of the constitution and espouse a pro-Southern ideology.
		Kansas Constitutional Convention: A Reprint of the Proceedings and Debates of the Convention which Framed the Constitution of Kansas at Wyandotte in July, 1859.
		The movement to make Nebraska south of the Platte River a part of Kansas Territory began as early as 1856 under the leadership of Sterling Morton, and was championed by the twelve-member honorary delegation from the region that attended the Wyandotte Convention in July 1859.
	www.kshs.org /sesquicentennial/bibliography/constitution_making.htm (875 words)

	ipedia.com: Kansas-Nebraska Act Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The territorial capital of Lecompton, Kansas was the target of this agitation and consequently became such a hostile environment for Free-Soilers, that they set up their own unofficial legistlature at Topeka.
		President James Buchanan sent the Lecompton constitution to Congress for approval and proclaimed Kansas to be a state.
		The Senate approved the admission of Kansas as a state under the Lecompton constitution, but this measure was blocked in the House, with the opponents of Kansas' admission as a slave state including Stephen A. Douglas.
	www.ipedia.com /kansas_nebraska_act.html (685 words)

	Historic Lecompton - birthplace of the civil war (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Located on the bank of the Kaw River, in between Topeka, the State capital, and Lawerence, the abloitionist headquarters during Bleeding Kansas, Lecompton was at the center of territorial and national politics during the 1850's.
		This document gave residents of Kansas Territory the right to decide for themselves the issue of slavery in Kansas, and started the controversy that would become the Civil War.
		Lecompton is proud to be home to the critically acclaimed amateur acting troupe, the Lecompton Reenactors.
	www.lecomptonkansas.com (492 words)

	"No Propriety in the Late Course of the Governor": The Geary-Sherrard Affair Reexamined, by David E. Meerse, Autumn 1976
		Many of the members of the legislature were also delegates to the convention, and the interchangeability of the two groups was further emphasized by the fact that the convention used the legislative hall for its meetings while the legislature was in recess.
		Cunningham had come to Kansas, taken his oath, but never left Lecompton for the seat of his judicial labors, Fort Scott, because he had been co-opted by Geary into the second phase of his plan to exploit the opportunity that Sherrard's attack afforded him.
		The Lecompton meeting was originally scheduled to meet on February 14th, but was postponed until the 18th, ostensibly because of the death of Councilor W. Richardson.
	www.kancoll.org /khq/1976/76_3_meerse.htm (11345 words)

	lecompto
		On the second floor the "Lecompton Constitution" was drafted which would have brought Kansas into the United States as a slave state.
		Pro-slavery forces were never in the majority in Kansas, but through political maneuvers, violence and bullying, they were able to form a territorial government and draft a constitution.
		The failure of the "Lecompton Constitution" and the eventual joining of Kansas to the Union as a Free State pushed the South toward withdrawing from the United States and the start of the Civil War.
	www.kansasphototour.com /lecompto.htm (490 words)

	Lincoln-Douglas Debate
		The people of Kansas has as much right to decide that question for themselves as you have in Missouri to decide it for yourselves, or we in Illinois to decide it for ourselves.
		And here I may repeat what I have said in every speech I have made in Illinois, that I fought the Lecompton constitution to its death, not because of the slavery clause in it, but because it was not the act and deed of the people of Kansas.
		Most of the men who denounced my course on the Lecompton question, objected to it not because I was not right, but because they thought it expedient at that time, for the sake of keeping the party together, to do wrong.
	www.skidmore.edu /~tkuroda/hi324/LincDoug.htm (16205 words)

	LASR - Lecompton, Kansas - Territorial Capitol - Lane Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In 1856, a proposed capitol building was started in Lecompton with an appropriation of $50,000 from the federal government.
		It was never completed for that purpose, since the state capital was moved elsewhere.
		Today, the building is used as the Territorial Capitol - Lane Museum operated by the Lecompton Historical Society.
	www.lasr.net /leisure/kansas/douglas/lecompton/att1.html (91 words)

	Lecompton schools
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	Lecompton
		Lecompton, small town, Douglas co., NE Kans., on the Kansas River between Lawrence and Topeka.
		Kansas Construction Companies Hope Program Builds New Work Force.
		Kansas champion of real Christmas trees publishes quarterly magazine.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/us/A0829203.html (239 words)

	Lecompton, KS - Lecompton, Kansas - Population overview
		Lecompton, KS - Lecompton, Kansas - Population overview
		Kansas > All counties > Douglas County > Lecompton
		Note: Hispanic ethnicity is a separate data category from race.
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	AllRefer.com - Lecompton, Kansas (KS) (Douglas County) - (village) - Facts and Information
		AllRefer.com - Lecompton, Kansas (KS) (Douglas County) - (village) - Facts and Information
		619), Douglas co., NE Kansas, on the Kansas R., 10 mi/16 km NW of Lawrence; 39°02'N 95°23'W. The pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution was formulated here Sept. 1857, and it was rejected by Kansas voters in 1858.
		Clinton L. reservoir and Clinton State Park to S.
	reference.allrefer.com /gazetteer/L/L02856-lecompton.html (159 words)

	Lecompton, Kansas (66050) Forecast : Weather Underground
		The Weather Underground has teamed up with Ambient Weather, Weather Display and Weather View 32 to build a network of weather stations across the globe.
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	www.wunderground.com /US/KS/Lecompton.html (191 words)

	John Dewey Learning Academy
		Deleware (10270103), Lower Kansas (10270104) Middle Kansas (10270102)
		They are working with Pheseants Forever, the Kansas Dept. of Wildlife and Parks, as well as the Kansas Association for Conservation and Environmental Education, to develop a 190 acre outdoor environmental education classroom at Perry Lake.
		The school is located in Lecompton, near the Kansas River.
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	Lecompton, Kansas Detailed Profile - travel and real estate info, jobs, hotels, hospitals, weather, schools, crime, ...
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	Lecompton, KS (Douglas County) - city business info - ePodunk
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	Lecompton, Kansas - Reviews and travel information - TripAdvisor
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	Douglas County, Kansas - Lecompton Schools
		Inquiries about Perry-Lecompton USD 343 schools should be directed to:
		Address: 626 Whitfield St. · Lecompton, KS 66050
		Address: 404 Lecompton Rd. · Perry, KS 66073
	www.douglas-county.com /education/lecompton.asp (75 words)

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