HISTORY
The history in Kansas is very important. There were tons of Indians and Indian tribes. For example the Kiawah was a tribe very close or in Kansas. Kansas had a six year struggle on slavery. On May 30, 1854, the U.S. Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, establishing the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. In January 1854, Sen. Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois introduced a bill dividing the land into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska, and leaving the question of slavery to be decided by the settlers. By the Compromise of 1850 the principle of popular sovereignty was applied to New Mexico and Utah territories. Although it worked in these former Mexican provinces, the doctrine broke down when Illinois Sen. Stephen A. Douglas sponsored legislation that applied it to Kansas and Nebraska territories. Fighting breaks out between Free-Soil and proslavery factions in Fort Scott, Kans. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 aroused bitter sectional antagonisms by leaving to settlers in that territory the decision of whether to extend slavery into Kansas.
(KANSAS HISTORY)
