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Name: Kansas Territory

Type: Polity

Start: 1854 AD

End: 1861 AD

Parent: usa

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Was an organized incorporated territory of the United States.

Establishment


  • May 1854: The Territory of Kansas was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 30, 1854.
  • May 1854: U.S. treaty concluded at Washington, D. C. with the Kaskaskia, Peoria, Piankishaw and Wea.
  • June 1854: U.S. treaty concluded at Washington, D. C. with the Miami.
  • Chronology


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    1. Events


  • July 1859: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894

  • October 1859: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894

  • October 1859: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894

  • October 1859: The Territory of Jefferson was an extralegal and unrecognized United States territory that existed from October 24, 1859.

  • May 1860: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894

  • January 1861: After Kansas was admitted as a state in 1861, the remaining territories became unorganized territory.

  • January 1861: On January 29, 1861, the eastern portion of the Kansas Territory was admitted to the Union as the free state of Kansas.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1861: After Kansas was admitted as a state in 1861, the remaining territories became unorganized territory.
  • January 1861: On January 29, 1861, the eastern portion of the Kansas Territory was admitted to the Union as the free state of Kansas.
  • Selected Sources


  • Royce, C. C. (1899): Indian Land Cessions in the United States, Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, p. 794
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