Kansas Territory

1855 first edition of Colton's map of the Nebraska and Kansas Territories }}

The Territory of Kansas was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 30, 1854, until January 29, 1861, when the eastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the free state of Kansas. The territory extended from the Missouri border west to the summit of the Rocky Mountains and from the 37th parallel north to the 40th parallel north. Originally part of Missouri Territory, it was unorganized from 1821 to 1854. Much of the eastern region of what is now the State of Colorado was part of Kansas Territory. The Territory of Colorado was created to govern this western region of the former Kansas Territory on February 28, 1861.

The question of whether Kansas was to be a free or a slave state was, according to the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas–Nebraska Act, to be decided by popular sovereignty, that is, by vote of the Kansans. The question of which Kansans were eligible to vote led to an armed-conflict period called Bleeding Kansas. Both pro-slavery and free-state partisans encouraged and sometimes financially supported emigration to Kansas, so as to influence the vote. During part of the territorial period there were two territorial legislatures, with two constitutions, meeting in two cities (one capital was burned by partisans of the other capital). Two applications for statehood, one free and one slave, were sent to the U.S. Congress. The departure of Southern legislators in January 1861 facilitated Kansas' entry as a free state, later the same month. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Published 1859
    Wyandot, Kansas : S. D. Macdonald, printer to the Convention, 1859.
    1 online resource (xlvi, 439, 16 pages)
    “...Kansas Territory. Constitutional Convention...”
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    Published 1858
    [1858]
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    “...Kansas Territory. Constitutional Convention...”
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    Published 1855
    [1855]
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    Published 1859
    [1859]
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    “...Kansas (Territory). Legislative Assembly. Council...”
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    “...Kansas (Territory). Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives...”
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    Published 1855
    Shawnee M.L. School : John T. Brady, Public printer, 1855.
    1 online resource (vii, 1058 pages)
    “...Kansas Territory...”
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    Published 1860
    [Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [1860]
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    “...Kansas Territory. Governor (1858-1860 : Medary)...”
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    Published 1860
    [Kansas?] : [Publisher not identified], [1860]
    1 online resource (5 pages)
    “...Kansas Territory. Legislative Assembly. Special Committee on Claims...”
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    Published 1860
    [Kansas Territory?] : [Publisher not identified], [1860?]
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    “...Kansas Territory. Legislative Assembly. Special Committee on Mail Routes...”
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    Published 1855
    [Shawnee, M.L.S.] : [publisher not identified], 1855-
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    “...Kansas Territory. Legislative Assembly. Council...”
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    Published 1855
    [Shawnee, M.L.S.] : [publisher not identified], 1855-
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    “...Kansas Territory. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives...”
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    Published 1860
    [Kansas?] : [Publisher not identified], [1860]
    1 online resource (3 pages)
    “...Kansas Territory. Legislative Assembly. Commissioners Appointed to Examine the Affairs...”
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