Prelude to Rebellion

The1850’s in America were ripe with sectional tension. The issue of slavery had become the predominate issue that would permeate local, state and national politic’s for the entire decade of the 1850s.

One of the battle ground territories during this period was Kansas. On July 3rd, 1856, the federal House of Representatives votes to admit Kansas as a state into he union, however the Senate rejects the bill. Almost five years later, Congress does admit Kansas as the 34th and more importantly, as a slave free state on January 29th, 1861.