USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Lawrence was founded in 1854 by antislavery settlers from Massachusetts, many of whom received financial support from the New England Emigrant Aid Company. The town was the de facto headquarters of Free-State Kansas, for which reason it soon became the epicenter of violence in the territory.

Detailed explanation-2: -Free-Staters was the name given to settlers in Kansas Territory during the “Bleeding Kansas” period in the 1850s who opposed the expansion of slavery. The name derives from the term “free state", that is, a U.S. state without slavery.

Detailed explanation-3: -First Free-State Majority Legislative Council Senate members, 1857, who met in Lecompton, Kansas across the street from Constitution Hall in the Nace building.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Lawrence Massacre, also known as Quantrill’s Raid, was an attack during the American Civil War (1861–65) by Quantrill’s Raiders, a Confederate guerrilla group led by William Quantrill, on the Unionist town of Lawrence, Kansas, killing around 150 unarmed men and boys.

Detailed explanation-5: -Lawrence was founded in 1854 by the New England Emigrant Aid Society in an effort to keep the territory free from slavery. It is said that Lawrence is one of the few cities in the U.S. founded strictly for political reasons.