Kansas

[W. Gray]

Kansas was admitted to the Union with an area of 82,267 square miles.

This was downsized from its original 127,000 square miles.

Kansas in 1861 was the fifth largest state.

Today, Kansas is fifteenth.

Under United States law, Kansas should have come into the Union as a Free State without the "Bleeding Kansas" strife it went through.

The 1820 Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state. The compromise abolished slavery after that date for any new state coming into the Union if that state was above an east to west line extended from the southern border of Missouri.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act, however, canceled the Missouri Compromise wording allowing each new state to decide its own destiny under a new idea of "popular sovereignty."

The Democrat Congress, led by Stephen Douglas, was in those days of 1854 proslavery, against freeing slaves, and just antiblack. They purposely added the Kansas-Nebraska Act language negating the Missouri Compromise wording hoping to influence slavery in Kansas and Nebraska.