kansas
No state’s creation was more dramatic, more at the center of national attention, more involved in fundamental moral conflict, than that of Kansas. In a sense, the state's history began with the Indians of the area and the Spanish explorers. A moral conflict of pro-slavery forces in the Civil War that led to “Bleeding Kansas”, and the moral contradiction between a declaration that claimed, “all people are created equally”. A constitution pragmatically permitting slavery had led to the repeated compromise in American history until the issue found resolution in war. “Kansas as a body politic was born of that process and much of its permanent character or personality was determined by it,” {K.Davis}. The state character has changed drastically over time. The first recorded history of this area was made by the Spanish chroniclers of the Francisco Vinquez de Coronado expedition. They set out from the Rio Grande to visit region in the present central part of the state they identified as Quivira. On this trip in the summer of 1541 they found the soil to their liking and capable of growing all products of Spain. The Indians were described as being physically attractive, but they lived in grass houses and possessed no gold, the primary o
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Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)
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