Supporters of slavery wanted to organize a constitutional convention that could put Kansas into the Union as a slave state.
VOA: special.2009.05.21
President Buchanan had promised the people of Kansas that they would have a fair chance to vote on their constitution.
VOA: special.2009.05.21
On July fourth, eighteen eighty-eight, a man named Ed Prather began shooting his gun in the street in Farmer City,Kansas.
VOA: special.2010.03.10
The Kansas State University study, however,may show a way that reduces risk for people who grill on high heat.
VOA: special.2009.05.19
The Kansas State University study, however, may show a way that reduces risk for people who grill on high heat.
VOA: special.2010.06.01
Pierce wanted to run for re-election. Many northern Democrats,however, objected to his support of the pro-slavery legislature in Kansas.
VOA: special.2009.05.07
Researchers from the University of Kansas in the United States and Chinas Northeastern University reported their findings earlier this year.
VOA: special.2010.03.16
The new bill gave the people of Kansas and Nebraska the right to decide if slavery would be legal or illegal.
VOA: special.2009.04.30
In the spring, the female monarchs leave Mexico and fly as far north as the American state of Kansas.
VOA: special.2010.04.27
As we reported in our last program, slavery supporters failed to push through Congress a bill to make Kansas a slave state.
VOA: special.2009.05.28
Some delegates,however, knew that Congress would not approve statehood for Kansas unless the people voted on the constitution.
VOA: special.2009.05.21
Douglas said the bill would give people in the Kansas and Nebraska territories the right to decide if slavery would be permitted.
VOA: special.2009.04.23
He was the man most responsible for gaining congressional approval of the bill that opened Kansas to slavery.
VOA: special.2009.05.07
In the next four years, more than one-and-a-half-million cattle were moved north over the Chisholm trail to Kansas.
VOA: special.2010.03.18
The president gave the pro-slavery governor of Kansas control of troops at two army bases in the territory.
VOA: special.2009.05.07
So the people of Kansas got another chance to show that they did not want a pro-slavery constitution.
VOA: special.2009.05.21
He was thrown from a taxi. After recovering, he moved to the state of Kansas, and met United States Senator Sam Brownback.
VOA: special.2010.07.05
The purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska bill reportedly was to settle differences among opposing railroad interests in the area.
VOA: special.2009.04.23
In Washington, President Pierce announced the appointment of Andrew Reeder to be governor of the Kansas territory.
VOA: special.2009.04.30
He took part in some of the first movements of huge cattle herds from Texas to the railroads in the state of Kansas.
VOA: special.2010.03.17
He would ask Congress to accept the pro-slavery Kansas constitution and make the territory a slave state.
VOA: special.2009.05.21
When the Senate began debate on the Kansas-Nebraska bill, Stephen Douglas was the first to defend it.
VOA: special.2009.04.23
For the next four years, he worked mainly in Kansas City,Missouri, where jazz music had become popular.
VOA: special.2009.05.03
The most difficult national problem facing the administration of President Franklin Pierce was the situation in Kansas.
VOA: special.2009.05.07
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