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1850s controlled by the southern influence, strong pro slavery. What president buchanan was not counting on is steven a. Douglas, the father of the kansas territory. He believed in the concept of popular sovereignty let the will of the people be spoken. Stephen douglas was outraged by the lecompton constitution. When the lecompton constitution arrived in washington, douglas got on the floor of the senate and called the lecompton constitution a swindle and a fraud. It did not represent popular sovereignty, it did not represent the role of the people. This constitution was debated in the halls o...

Communities. In 1856 when this house was built, ritchies idea was to make this house as solid as he possibly could. Its kind of like a fort in that sense. The house has become known as somebodys port, whether you are on one side or another. That will result in ritchies arrest for his involvement in rating stores and he will be arrested and incarcerated in the proslavery jail. And managed to escape in the fall of 1856 and find his way back to franklin, indiana where he spent time with his family, his father and his family in indiana, leaving a wife and children here into bego topeka. When he co...

Librarian. She wanted it to be a big, open space. When you first walk in, it is very welcoming. They chose stencilling in there to welcome people. When you look up, there is a pineapple stencil all over the ceiling. Then there are bird faces eating berries on the sides of the walls. She was credited with also she was a populist which was kansas is really the only state that had populism. We had a couple populist governors and some big figures who were involved in the populist movement. She reminded them the workers, while they were working on the library, that at some point they would be holdi...

1850s controlled by the southern influence, strong pro slavery. What president buchanan was not counting on is steven a. Douglas, the father of the kansas territory. He believed in the concept of popular sovereignty let the will of the people be spoken. Stephen douglas was outraged by the lecompton constitution. When the lecompton constitution arrived in washington, douglas got on the floor of the senate and called the lecompton constitution a swindle and a fraud. It did not represent popular sovereignty, it did not represent the role of the people. This constitution was debated in the halls o...

Communities. In 1856 when this house was built, ritchies idea was to make this house as solid as he possibly could. Its kind of like a fort in that sense. The house has become known as somebodys port, whether you are on one side or another. That will result in ritchies arrest for his involvement in rating stores and he will be arrested and incarcerated in the proslavery jail. And managed to escape in the fall of 1856 and find his way back to franklin, indiana where he spent time with his family, his father and his family in indiana, leaving a wife and children here into bego topeka. When he co...