Show THE STORY OP OUR STATES STATE han gas way back in ii 1541 1541 ronado the 3 spanish anish explorer is reputed to hav penetrated to kansas in search of z mythical indian tribe I 1 not again sted ted however lio vever I 1 ii white men until nearly one hundred and seventy benenty five years later ahel the hie french in louisiana sent out ai lon tion to investigate the demot abortions bort ions of what was then their ter atory most ot of the present state 0 kansas was a part ol of the Lou louisiana louisias isiam purchase and passed from frencl frenc ands to the united n 1801 A additional addi tonal port p rt ii lit in r in 11 1 1 i 1 1 s SIO 0 o ting c 11 ll ii i l i l av ly T r b lewis an cllrk parta raver 1 I 1 ih b region in ili 1911 1 aud leu go i iii ilke passed th ransa kansa v years later kansas his history ory really ii s in ili er esting in ili the middie of the C cen 11 ury when the slavery agitation gavi t the name of Dle bleeding eding kansas A t had been an ail unorganized territory tern tor ince 1821 at which binic it had jeen een considered a portion of thi I 1 territory errit ory of missouri accordi according 9 t he missouri compromise it if t kani aai 41 ecale a state it coull not lc he bavery state stale the hypo of tin ill south was so strong the kansas nebraska bill was passed lit in 1834 baking this vital qu quest estloa loii optional aith the inhabitants in each pro proposed tate with this law in force the two tact actions ions actively started colonizing chloi i ains n kansas immigrants froin the states of arkansas and mii oun immediately founded leavenworth the massachusetts aid society sent out antislavery anti slavery set tiers ho he founded lawrence ind and other towns conflict betwee these parties broe broce out at onci once and it was only put down by the in ili tion of federal troops thi rhe ille northern settlers came in suel lumbers lui abers that in tin the majority and in 1861 an antl constitution was adopted so eo kansa was admitted to the union in that union in ili that year the political dispute over kansas was the tha cause of the lor matlon 0 the present arese at party |