Original sentence: At the same time, several anti-slavery organizations in the North, most notably the New England Emigrant Aid Company, were organizing to fund several thousand settlers to move to Kansas and vote to make it a free state.Pro-slavery settlements were established by these immigrants at Leavenworth and Atchison.Rumors had spread through the South that 30,000 Northerners were descending on Kansas, and in November 1854, thousands of armed Southerners known as "Border Ruffians", mostly from Missouri, poured over the line to vote for a proslavery congressional delegate.The first organized immigration to Kansas Territory was by citizens of southern states, most notably neighboring Missouri, who came to the territory to secure the expansion of slavery.The proslavery forces won the election.The proslavery territorial legislature convened in Pawnee on July 2, 1855, but after one week it adjourned to the Shawnee Mission on the Missouri border, where it began passing laws to institutionalize slavery in Kansas Territory.These organizations helped to establish Free-State settlements further into the territory in Topeka, Manhattan, and Lawrence
Edited sentence: Pro-slavery settlements were established at Leavenworth and Atchison.Rumors had spread through the South that 30,000 Northerners were descending on Kansas, and in November 1854, thousands of armed Southerners known as "Border Ruffians", mostly from Missouri, poured over the line to vote for a pro-slavery congressional delegate.Several anti-slavery organizations in the North, most notably the New England Emigrant Aid Company, organized and funded several thousand settlers to move to Kansas and vote to make it a free state.The pro-slavery forces won the election.The pro-slavery territorial legislature convened in Pawnee on July 2, 1855, but after one week it adjourned to the Shawnee Mission on the Missouri border, where it began passing laws to institutionalize slavery in Kansas Territory.There was gradual immigration to Kansas from southern states, most notably Missouri, as its first settlers and before the political issues arose, but they became mobilized to secure the expansion of slavery after the Yankee immigration brought a lot of foreigners to change their ways and prevent Kansas from continuing its Missouri-type ties to the South.These organizations helped to establish Free-State settlements in Topeka, Manhattan, and Lawrence