• The Wyandotte Constitution is the constitution of the U.S. state of Kansas. The Kansas Territory was created in 1854. The largest issue by far in territorial...
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  • of Wyandotte Constitution The convention met July 5, 1859 in the former community of Wyandotte, today part of Kansas City, Kansas. The Wyandotte Constitution...
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  • Look up Wyandotte or wyandotte in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wyandotte may refer to: Wyandotte Nation, a federally recognized Native American tribe...
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  • Constitution. Kansas was admitted into the Union as a free state under this constitution on January 29, 1861. By the time the Wyandotte Constitution was...
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  • two constitutions of the Vermont Republic. Excludes the 1876 recodification of the Constitution of the State of Maine. The Wyandotte Constitution supplanted...
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  • state constitutions were the Topeka Constitution (1855), the Lecompton Constitution (1857) and the Wyandotte Constitution (1859). The proposed Wyandotte Constitution...
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    in committee. The fourth and final Free State proposal was the Wyandotte Constitution, drafted in 1859, which represented the anti-slavery view of the...
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    was followed by the Leavenworth and Wyandotte Constitutions, with the Wyandotte becoming the Kansas state constitution. The document was written in response...
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    Wyandotte County (/ˈwaɪ.əndɒt/) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Kansas City, with which it shares a...
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    and the Free-State Leavenworth Constitution of 1858. Finally the Wyandotte Constitution (1859) led to Kansas being admitted into the Union as a free state...
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    1861, President James Buchanan signed the bill that approved the Wyandotte Constitution and Kansas came to the Union as a Free State. During the American...
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    Leavenworth Constitution's defeat, the territorial legislature again crafted a new document the following year, dubbed the Wyandotte Constitution. A compromise...
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    Kansas was admitted into the Union as a free state under the "Wyandotte Constitution" on January 29, 1861. Most people gave strong support to the Union...
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    (1883), p. 326. "Kansas Constitutions". KSHS.org. Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved July 6, 2018. "Wyandotte Constitution". Kansapedia. Kansas State...
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    Constitution were incorporated in the Constitution of Kansas (the Wyandotte Constitution) drafted in 1859. Constitution Hall became the Free State, Kansas...
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  • They were followed by the Leavenworth Constitution and the Wyandotte Constitution. Kansas had four constitutions during the territorial period, along with...
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    Legislature fell into free-state hands. Then, on October 4, 1859, the Wyandotte Constitution was approved in a referendum by a vote of 10,421 to 5,530, and after...
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    in the government by referendum, recall, and ratification. The Wyandotte Constitution was approved in a referendum by a vote of 10,421 to 5,530 on October...
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  • Fourth constitution drafted; the Wyandotte Constitution adopted by the convention. 1859, October 4: People's election held; adopts Wyandotte Constitution, which...
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  • and Santa Fe Railway chartered and set up offices and work shops. Wyandotte Constitution makes Topeka the temporary state capital. Topeka Cemetery established...
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    and Kansas won admission as a free state under the anti-slavery Wyandotte Constitution in the final months of Buchanan's presidency. History of slavery...
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    participating in the convention drafting of the Wyandotte Constitution, later the official constitution for Kansas. After the Free Soilers succeeded in...
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    248–269. R. Lawrence Hachey, "Jacksonian Democracy and the Wisconsin Constitution." Marquette Law Review 62 (1978): 485. online McPherson, 1982, p. 72...
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    The Wyandotte Caves is a pair of limestone caves located on the Ohio River in Harrison-Crawford State Forest in Crawford County, Indiana, 5 miles (8 km)...
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    Global Slavery Index". Athenaion Politeia 12.4, quoting Solon s:Athenian Constitution#12 Garland, Robert (2008). Ancient Greece: Everyday Life in the Birthplace...
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  • Political Council Woo (film) The Wood Working With the Hands Work song Wyandotte Constitution Xavier University of Louisiana Henry Clay Yerger Youngblood (1978...
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    constitution called the Lecompton Constitution, but after the U.S. Congress rejected it, the state approved the anti-slavery Wyandotte Constitution and...
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    founded in 1973, and it is currently headed by Laura Howard. The 1859 Wyandotte Constitution mandated that the state create and support institutions for “the...
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  • the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention met in July 1859, it consisted of 35 Republicans and 17 Democrats. It produced the Wyandotte Constitution, making...
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    sympathies. After the Territory of Kansas approved the anti-slavery Wyandotte Constitution, it was admitted to the Union on January 29, 1861, in the midst...
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