Lecompton Constitution Bibliography
Abbott, Nehemiah. Kansas-Lecompton Constitution, and the President's Lecompton Message, Speech of Hon. Nehemiah Abbott of...
Popular Sovereignty and the Lecompton Constitution
Topic: Lecompton Constitution Grade Level: 7th - 8th Overview: This lesson deals with the i...
Kansas State Capitol - Online tour - The Governor's Mansion
...#39;s Mansion by Lumen Martin Winter, second floor rotunda, northeast corner Depicting Lecompton in Kansas Territory in 1857, the governor's mansion was a temporary location since the...
Politics Bibliographies Guide
... Abolition, Segregation and Civil Rights Kansas Constitutions Lecompton Constitution Topeka Constitution Wyandotte Constitution K...
Constitution Hall - About
Overview Lecompton was the only official capital of Kansas Territory, approved in 1855 by the territorial leg...
Kansas Historical Quarterly - No Propriety in the Late Course of the Governor
...sday, February 18, 1857, a crowd estimated at 200 to 300 people assembled on Capitol Hill, Lecompton, seat of the government of territorial Kansas. Assembled in response to public notices add...
Cool Things - Calhoun's Candlebox
...ruggle over the second constitution. Named after the town in which the convention met, the Lecompton Constitution was created by mostly proslavery delegates under the leadership of John Calho...
Constitution Hall - Collections
Constitution Hall tells the stories of the town of Lecompton, the Land Office where American Indian lands were sold by the U.S. government to settlers,...
Venture off a Highway, I-35 & I-335
...ndian Mission State Historic Site 3403 West 53rd, Fairway Nearest food and lodging Lecompton 14. Constitution Hall State Historic Site 319 Elmore, Lecompton Nearest food and l...
Constitution Hall - Exhibits
...rk recorded the discussions and a railing divided the onlookers from participants. The Lecompton Constitution In September 1857 delegates to the Lecompton Constitutonal Convention met...
Venture off a Highway, I-70
...ndian Mission State Historic Site 3403 West 53rd, Fairway Nearest food and lodging Lecompton 14. Constitution Hall State Historic Site 319 Elmore, Lecompton Nearest food and l...
Lesson plans
...rs to examine his role in the 1856 Battle of Osawatomie. Popular Sovereignty and the Lecompton Constitution examines the debate over the Lecompton Constitution as a way to understand th...
Douglas County History Bibliography
...in, KS: Baldwin Republican, 1908. (K/978.1/-D74/ Pam.v.1/no. 14). Childs, Mrs. Joseph. Lecompton Centennial, Aug. 7, 1954. N.p.: 1954. (K/978.1/-D74/L496c). Claussen, Lee. Lakeview: R...
Online Encyclopedia of Kansas History
Kansas Territory - Timeline (more)
1854 - 1861 May 26, 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act passes Congress effective with president's signature, May 30. July ...
Robert J. Walker
Politician, territorial governor. Democrat. Born: July 23, 1801, Northumberland, Pennsylvania. Died: November 11, 1869, Washington, D.C.? Served as 4th territorial governor of Kansas: May 27, 1857, to December 15, 1857. Robert J. Walker was...
Constitution Hall
During 1857 this building was one of the busiest and most important in Kansas Territory. Thousands of settlers and speculators filed claims in the United States land office on the first floor. They sometimes fought hand-to-hand for their share ...
Kansas Constitutions
During the Kansas territorial period, four attempts were made to write and adopt a constitution under which Kansas would become a state. The first attempt to write a constitution emerged as a movement—the Topeka movement—in reac...
Kansas Territory - Timeline
? 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1854 May 26 Kansas-Nebraska Act passes Congress; eff...
Rush Elmore
Territorial Kansas Supreme Court Justice. 1819-1864 Born in Autauga County, Alabama, on February 27, 1819, the future associate justice on the territorial supreme court of Kansas attend primary and secondary school in the county of his birt...
Ulysses Samuel Guyer
Politician. Republican. Born: December 13, 1868, Pawpaw, Illinois. Died: June 5, 1943. Served in U.S. House of Representatives, 2nd District: November 4, 1924, to March 3, 1925. Congressman U. S. Guyer was born near Pawpaw, Lee County, Illi...
John Calhoun
Proslavery politician, 1854 Surveyor general of Kansas and Nebraska. 1806-1859 John Calhoun, who would gain notoriety as a leader of proslavery partisans in Kansas Territory during the 1850s, was born on October 14, 1806, in Boston, Massach...
Underground Railroad
In the early years of Kansas Territory many slaves came through Kansas on their way to freedom. The informal network that aided these formerly enslaved people in their escape attempts was dubbed the Underground Railroad. While this path was not...
Frederick Brown
Constitutional Delegate. Born: 1826, Germany. Married: Eliza, 1850. Died: 1870s. Born in Germany (circa 1826), Frederick Brown (or Braun) immigrated to Massachusetts where he married Eliza _______ about 1850. With their first child Ellen, t...
Online digital archives of photos, documents, and artifacts
Lecompton Constitution
The Lecompton Constitution, the second constitution drafted for Kansas Territory, was written by proslav...
Date: November 7,1857
Lecompton Constitution
This is the text of the Lecompton Constitution, as printed in Daniel W. Wilder's "Annals of Kansas" (1868). The Lecompton Co...
Date: November 7, 1857
Lecompton, Kansas Territory
A view of the city of Lecompton when it was the capital of Kansas Territory. This is a copy of an illustration from the De...
Date: 1858
Lecompton, Kansas Territory
Drawing of Lecompton, Kansas Territory, looking toward the town from the Kansas River.
Date: 1855
Lecompton, Kansas Territory
This early town plat of Lecompton, Kansas Territory, shows the proposed lots and blocks of the town. It also shows public gr...
Date: 1855
Lecompton City map
A town plat of Lecompton, Kansas Territory. In 1855, Lecompton became the capital of Kansas Territory.
Date: Between 1855 and 1861
Sketch of James Lane at Lecompton
...ing defiance into the convention's ears and the battery's muzzles at Constitution Hall" in Lecompton, Kansas Territory. The illustration is copied from "Life of General James H. Lane" by John...
Date: 1857
Statehouse, Lecompton, Kansas, 1867
A stereograph showing the statehouse foundation and window framing at Lecompton, Douglas County, Kansas, in 1867. The stereograph is from Alexander Gardner's series, "Acr...
Date: 1867
Constitution Hall - Kansas Day
Join us at the site of the 1857 proslavery Lecompton Constitutional Convention. Costumed Lecompton Reenactors portraying male and female Kansas...
Constitution Hall - Bleeding Kansas Series
...lic. $3 suggested donation. Constitution Hall State Historic Site is located at 319 Elmore, Lecompton. Call 785-887-6520 for more information. Schedule of presenters and topics (PDF)
Unpublished materials in the State Archives that are not online. This includes government records, collections of personal papers, records of organizations and businesses, and other unpublished materials.
