History of the United States I / Unit 14 USH1 1985 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Lecompton Constitution
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The idea
The proslavery legislature produced the Lecompton Constitution in eighteen fifty-seven, which enshrined slavery in the territory and was sent to Washington for approval.
In practice
President Buchanan supporting it while Stephen Douglas opposed it.
Where people slip
In January eighteen fifty-eight Kansas voters rejected it by ten thousand two hundred and twenty-six to one hundred and thirty-eight.
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