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Kansas Territory ~ Sack of Lawrence
Read more: Kansas Territory ~ Sack of LawrenceI sure do hope y’all aren’t getting tired of my Kansas posts. I know they seem to be going on forever and ever, but there was a lot going on in this territory in 1856, which eventually led up to the War between the States. If you remember from my last post, Thomas Barber, an…
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Kansas Territory ~ Bleeding Kansas
Read more: Kansas Territory ~ Bleeding KansasThis whole Bleeding Kansas topic is a hard one to follow. One minute Kansas was a free-state territory, the next pro-slavery, only to find themselves free-staters again. Problem was most of the pro-slavery population weren’t even Kansans, they were Missourians and South Carolinians and whateverians. They weren’t there for the long haul, they were there…
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Kansas Territory ~ Conflict for Freedom
Read more: Kansas Territory ~ Conflict for FreedomIf you recall from my previous post, the Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decided through ‘Popular Sovereignty’ whether they would be free or slave states. But before they could become a state they first had to adopt a state constitution. A task not easy in the best of circumstances, but…