[DOC] [TLE] Lecompton, Kansas - Wikipedia [PAR] Lecompton is a city in Douglas County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 
census, the city population was 625. Lecompton played a major historical role in 
pre-Civil War America as the Territorial capital of Kansas from 1855 to 1861. ... 
chose Topeka as capital when Kansas became a state on January 29, 1861. [DOC] [TLE] About Lecompton | Lecompton Kansas [PAR] The victorious free-state leaders chose Topeka as capital when Kansas ... The 
happenings in the Kansas Territory caused a rupture in the relations of ... Kansas 
entered the Union on January 29, 1861, as a free state, and the Civil War began. [DOC] [TLE] Lecompton, Kansas | Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri ... [PAR] The Governor's Mansion, Lecompton, Kansas Territory. ... In 1861 the capital 
moved to Topeka as Kansas became a state, and Lecompton's population and... [DOC] [TLE] Bleeding Kansas - PBS [PAR] 1853 - 1861 ... But Kansas was next to the slave state of Missouri. ... In 1856 the 
proslavery territorial capital was moved to Lecompton, a town only 12 miles from 
... states seceded, did the constitution gain approval and Kansas become a state. [DOC] [TLE] When Kansas Became a State - Kansas Historical Society [PAR] Kansas had been admitted as the 34th state of the Union. .... The editor of the 
Leavenworth Daily Times, January 30, 1861, began majestically: .... At 
Lecompton, the territorial capital and unofficial headquarters of the Proslavery .... 
But a number of Southern States seceded, reducing the Democratic majority in 
the Senate;... [DOC] [TLE] Historic Sites: Bleeding Kansas - Emporia State University [PAR] One of the primary goals of the Kansas State Historical Society is to ensure that 
the heritage ... factions in the Kansas Territory was a precursor of the Civil War 
that would begin in 1861. ... 1856Pro-slavery capital moved to Lecompton. ... 
states, Kansas was not admitted to the Union until 1861, after the South had 
seceded. [DOC] [TLE] Free or slave Kansas? A decision that split the nation | CJOnline.com [PAR] Mar 9, 2015 ... The Great Soldier State: Kansas and the Civil War, an exhibit that tells the 
Kansas story of .... 8, 1855: Lecompton named territorial capital by Bogus 
Legislature. ... 29, 1861: Kansas admitted as a free state. .... Several Southern 
states had seceded from the Union to form the Confederate States of America. [DOC] [TLE] Presidential Key EventsMiller Center [PAR] Buchanan has served previously in Congress, as a secretary of state for 
President Polk ... drafted in the territorial capital of Lecompton, Kansas, as an 
attempt to bring Kansas ... Kansas into a non-slaveholding state when it enters 
the Union officially in 1861. .... By this time, seven states have already seceded 
from the Union. [DOC] [TLE] Kansas facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about ... [PAR] ... at Topeka following the establishment of a territorial capital at Lecompton. ... 
Kansas entered the Union on 29 January 1861 as a free state. Topeka was 
named the capital, and the western boundary was moved to its present ... Most of 
the Indians were eventually removed to the Indian Territory in what is now 
Oklahoma. [DOC] [TLE] The Period Of Political Contests - Kansas State History [PAR] The second Territorial Legislature met at Lecompton in the opening days of 1857. 
.... was held in November, 1861, for the purpose of selecting a permanent capital. 
... In 1857, early in the political period, the free-state people succeeded, for the... [DOC] [TLE] The Historic Kaw - Friends of the Kaw [PAR] In 1857, the proslavery Territorial Legislature meeting at Lecompton wrote the ... 
When Lincoln won the election, Southern states seceded from the nation and ... 
In 1861, after Kansas was admitted to the Union as a state, the capital was 
moved... [DOC] [TLE] List of books and articles about Kansas History | Online Research ... [PAR] Discover librarian-selected research resources on Kansas History from the 
Questia ... Topeka is the capital; other important cities are Wichita (the state's

Question: In 1861 it succeeded Lecompton, the territorial capital, as Kansas' state capital
Answer: Topeka