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Date Posted: 17:31:04 11/07/02 Thu
Author: Hilly
Subject: Deadlock Over Kansas

- The Legislaturecalled an election for delegates to a constitutional convention.
-The free state residents refused to go becausehad discriminated against them in drawing up district lines.
-And so, the pro slavery forces won control of the convention.
- When an election was called for the new territory, the anti-slavery forces showed up and took the majority of the votes.
-Most of the people in Kansas opposed slavery.
-The Lecompton Constitution was, at first, rejected by the people in Kansas, and it was disapproved the second time it was given to the people.
- If it was approved, Kansas would recive statehood and join the Union.
-It was not approved, and Kansas did not join the Union.
- During the closing of Buchanan's term, Kansas joined the Union as a free state.

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