Kansas


 * Capital at Topeka
 * Last state admitted to the Union before the start of the Civil War
 * Lawrence was burned as a result of conflicts between Bushwhackers and Jayhawkers
 * John Brown led the Pottawatomie Massacre here
 * Pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution was drafted here
 * Many Exodusters settled here
 * Benjamin "Pap" Singleton created black colonies here
 * James Henry Lane, a senator, recruited the first African-American regiment to fight
 * Raiders led by William Quantrill responded to a jail collapse by sacking a city here