Kansas was a part of the Missouri Territory from 1812-1821. From 1821 to 1880, the Santa Fe Trail traversed Kansas for transporting finished goods from Missouri and bringing furs and silver from Santa Fe, New Mexico. One can still see the wagon ruts from the trail in the prairie today that reminds of this transportation. In 1827, the first permanent settlement of White Americans was made in Fort Leavenworth in the future state of Kansas. The history of Kansas deepened further when the Kansas-Nebraska Act became law on May 30, 1954, thus establishing the U.S. territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
After that, Kansas expanded its territory all the way to the Continental Divide, including the present-day sites of Pueblo, Colorado Springs, and Denver. Now, starts the history of slavery in Kansas. Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence, Arkansas and KansasMissouri sent settlers to the regions of Southeastern Kansas, mainly Cherokee County, Crawford County and Bourbon County. These people tried to sway votes in favor of slavery. The second American settlement in Kansas Territory attempted to stop the spread of slavery from the neighboring Missouri. Kansas became Bleeding Kansas and presaged the American Civil War. Finally, on January 29, 1861 Kansas was admitted to the U.S. as a free state, the 34th state to enter the Union.
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