"Border Ruffians" from Missouri invaded Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
"Border Ruffians" from Missouri invaded Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
Kansas cast its 5 electoral votes for Rutherford Hayes in the 1876 election. The 1876 presidential election popular vote totals in Kansas were Samuel Tilden 37,902 and Rutherford Hayes 78,324.
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In the first election in Kansas, a large number of people from Missouri rode across the state line and cast votes in Kansas. People not eligible to vote, voted in the election.
Bleeding Kansas
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Adams lost the election that year to Thomas Jefferson.
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The Kansas Territory became pro-slavery.
Kansas is a red state, typically, but this election it seems like it might go blue.
Kansas was so important to the south since it opened the slavery territory. The south was losing its political détente and needed the numbers to get the Missouri Compromise.