SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
BLOODY KANSAS
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Lecomption
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Wyandotte
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Leavenworth
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Topeka
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Lecompton Constitution is a pro-slavery document. If approved it would allow slavery in the state of Kansas. Both the proslavery constitutional convention and the free-state legislature claimed to have the authority to call for an election on the Lecompton Constitution.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Lecompton Constitution was drafted by pro-slavery advocates and included provisions to protect slaveholding in the state and to exclude free people of color from its bill of rights.
Detailed explanation-3: -Between October 19 and November 8, 1857, the pro-slavery Lecompton Convention wrote a state constitution that deviated from the pattern of previous state constitutions. First, the Lecompton Constitution prohibited any amendment for a period of seven years.