On February 2, 1858, President James Buchanan supported the Lecompton Constitution for the Kansas Territory. This pro-slavery document was bitterly contested in the United States Senate by Free Soil Republicans and Northern Democrats vs. Pro-Slavery Southern Democrats. These debates dragged on delaying Kansas statehood until 1861, when it was admitted as a free state. Six years later, Maryland was undergoing its own state Constitutional Convention, debating whether to retain the institution of s
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