Kansas , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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KANSAS , state, United States kan z s, midwestern state occupying the center...the coterminous United States. It is...Manhattan; Wichita State Univ., at Wichita...from whom the United States acquired it in...1853. Pro- and Antislavery Factions Kansas...to resolve the slavery issue in the area...retaliation the abolitionists set up a rival...band led by the abolitionist crusader John Brown...