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Kansas has an area of about 81,800 miles and has a total population of about 2.7 million people.  It became a state on January 29, 1861 which made it the 34th state to be admitted to the Union.  The capital city is Topeka and the major industry is farming, in fact Kansas produces more wheat than any other state.

In 1854 Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act which created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, and repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 (which prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory). The Kansas-Nebraska Act established that settlers could vote to decide whether to allow slavery. Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, who designed the bill, hoped that would ease relations between the North and the South, because the South could expand slavery to new territories but the North still had the right to abolish slavery in its states. Instead, opponents denounced the law as a concession to the slave power of the South. The new Republican Party, which was created in opposition to the act, aimed to stop the expansion of slavery and soon emerged as the dominant force throughout the North.

Like Arizona, Kansas has a long history of Wild West characters.  In fact, the famous Wyatt Earp was known as a hardnosed lawman in Dodge City Kansas long before he ever got to Tombstone.  In the 1870's Dodge City was known as the "Wickedest little city" in the United States.

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