He returned to politics to oppose the pro-slavery Kansas – Nebraska Act ( 1854 ); this law repealed the slavery-restricting Missouri Compromise ( 1820 ).

The Whigs had been irreparably split by the Kansas – Nebraska Act.

* 1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.

* 1863 – Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate guerrillas Quantrill's Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre.

The state legislature had passed resolutions instructing their representatives in Washington to support pro-slavery and popular sovereignty measures such as the LeCompton Constitution and the Kansas – Nebraska Act.

* 1930 – The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.

* 1947 – The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.

* C. l. frustor: Southeastern coyote – southeastern and extreme eastern Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, and Arkansas

" On Conner's recommendation, in 1925 – 26 he attended the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he graduated first in a class of 245 officers.

Hopper was born in Dodge City, Kansas, the son of Marjorie Mae ( née Davis, July 12, 1917-January 12, 2007 ) and James Millard Hopper ( June 23, 1916 – August 7, 1982 ).

In the playoffs Baltimore advanced to the AFC title game after a 20 – 3 rout of the Cleveland Browns, whereas Miami survived a double-overtime nailbiter against the Kansas City Chiefs.

* 1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.

* 1933 – Union Station Massacre: in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.

* 1861 – Kansas is admitted as the 34th U. S. state.

* 1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U. S. Senator.

* 1966 – Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an " F5 " on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US $ 100 million in damages.

* 1983 – George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the " Pine Tar Incident ".

* 1954 – Steve Morse, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Dixie Dregs, Deep Purple, Living Loud, Angelfire, Kansas, and Flying Colors )

* 1981 – A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.

The Wizards played their home games at CommunityAmerica Ballpark in Kansas in 2008, and ended a four year playoff drought by posting an 11 – 10 – 9 record, which was good enough for fourth place in the Eastern Conference.

The " SC " ( for Sporting Club ) is inspired by Asclepius ' rod representing health and fitness, a Greek statue called the Winged Victory of Samothrace – alluding to strength and movement, and to the Spanish architecture of Kansas City's Country Club Plaza.

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Their range covers the southeastern quadrant of the United States from the Great Lakes and southern Minnesota east to Pennsylvania and southern Massachusetts, and extending west to southern Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and all but westernmost Texas.

Benton, intending to challenge Atchison in 1854, began to agitate for territorial organization of the area west of Missouri ( now the states of Kansas and Nebraska ) so it could be opened to settlement.

The Act became law in May 1854, establishing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska.

Douglas ( and Atchison ) had assumed that Nebraska would be settled by Free-State men from Iowa and Illinois, and Kansas by pro-slavery Missourians and other Southerners, thus preserving the numerical balance between free states and slave states.

Furthermore, anti-slavery activists throughout the North came to view Kansas as a battleground and formed societies to encourage free-soil settlers to go to Kansas and ensure that both Kansas and Nebraska would become free states.

In the 1980s in the United States, namely in New York ( Deprogramming Bill, 1981 ), Kansas ( Deprogramming Bill, 1982 ), and Nebraska ( conservatorship legislation for 1985 ), lawmakers unsuccessfully attempted to legalize involuntary deprogramming.

The Kansas – Nebraska Act of 1854 () created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.

The initial purpose of the Kansas – Nebraska Act was to open up many thousands of new farms and make feasible a Midwestern Transcontinental Railroad.

On January 23 a revised bill was introduced in the senate that repealed the Missouri Compromise and divided the territory into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska.

The house leadership then began a series of roll call votes in which legislation ahead of the Kansas – Nebraska Act was called to the floor and tabled without debate.

Sen. Stephen A. Douglas and former Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln aired their disagreement over the Kansas – Nebraska Act in three public speeches during September and October 1854.

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The expedition followed the Missouri through what is now Kansas City, Missouri, and Omaha, Nebraska.

The land purchased contained all of present-day Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska ; parts of Minnesota that were west of the Mississippi River ; most of North Dakota ; most of South Dakota ; northeastern New Mexico ; northern Texas ; the portions of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide ; Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, including the city of New Orleans ; and small portions of land that would eventually become part of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Missouri (,,, or, among others ) ( nickname The Show Me State ) is a U. S. state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska.

Missouri is bounded on the north by Iowa ; on the east, across the Mississippi River, by Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee ; on the south by Arkansas ; and on the west by Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska ( the last across the Missouri River ).

Speaking in his Kentucky accent, with a very powerful voice, he said the Kansas Act had a " declared indifference, but as I must think, a covert real zeal for the spread of slavery.

This matter has been the subject of a number of cases before the Supreme Court, most notably Kansas v. Hendricks and United States v. Comstock in regard to the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, which does not require a conviction on sex offences, but only that the person be in federal custody and be deemed a " sexually dangerous person ".

Kansas State University, originally named Kansas State Agricultural College, was founded on February 16, 1863, during the American Civil War, as a land-grant institution under the Morrill Act.

* 1854 – The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.

In the United States, following a series of landmark cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, persons diagnosed with paraphilias and a history of anti-social behavior, particularly pedophilia ( Kansas v. Hendricks, 1997 ) and exhibitionism ( Kansas v. Crane, 2002 ), can be held indefinitely in civil confinement under various state legislation generically known as Sexually violent predator laws and the federal Adam Walsh Act ( United States v. Comstock, 2010 ).

* February 16 – Kansas State Agricultural College is established as the first land grant college created under the 1862 Morrill Act.

This was due in part to the Kansas – Nebraska Act of 1854, which had divided the Democrats into Northern Democrats and Southern Democrats.

Republican Frémont condemned the Kansas – Nebraska Act and crusaded against the expansion of slavery, while Buchanan, a Democrat, warned that the Republicans were extremists whose victory would lead to civil war.

The Democrats endorsed the popular sovereignty approach to slavery expansion embodied by the Kansas – Nebraska Act.

The result was the Kansas – Nebraska Act, which alienated Northerners and Southerners alike.

The Kansas – Nebraska Act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.