Kansas Territory (as namesake of Fort Riley)

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Kansas Territory was a mid-19th-century U.S. territorial jurisdiction on the Great Plains that became a focal point of the national conflict over slavery and later contributed land to the state of Kansas.

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Kansas Territory (as namesake of Fort Riley) canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf former political entity
organized incorporated territory of the United States
admissionAlignedWith Union (North)
surface form: Union (American Civil War)
admittedAsState Kansas
borderedBy Territory of Colorado
surface form: Colorado Territory

Indian Territory
Missouri
Nebraska Territory
New Mexico Territory
capital Lecompton
Pawnee, Kansas Territory
Shawnee Mission
Topeka, Kansas
surface form: Topeka
continent North America
contributedLandTo Kansas
surface form: State of Kansas
country United States of America
surface form: United States
currency US dollar
surface form: United States dollar
endDate 1861-01-29
establishedBy Kansas–Nebraska Act
event Bleeding Kansas crisis
surface form: Bleeding Kansas conflict

Bleeding Kansas crisis
surface form: Lecompton Constitution controversy

Bleeding Kansas crisis
surface form: Topeka Constitution movement

Wyandotte Constitutional Convention
followedBy Kansas
surface form: State of Kansas
governedBy Territorial Governor of Kansas
historicalEra Antebellum period
Bleeding Kansas crisis
surface form: Bleeding Kansas
keyIssue popular sovereignty
slavery in the United States
language English
legislativeBody Territorial Legislature of Kansas Territory
surface form: Kansas Territorial Legislature
locatedIn Great Plains
militaryPostEstablished Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
surface form: Fort Leavenworth

Fort Riley
namedAfter Kaw people
surface form: Kansa people

Kansas River
notableGovernor Andrew H. Reeder NERFINISHED
James W. Denver
John W. Geary
partlyBecame Territory of Colorado
surface form: Colorado Territory
partOf Louisiana Purchase
politicalStatusDebatedBy free-state settlers
pro-slavery settlers
significantSettlement Atchison, Kansas, United States
surface form: Atchison, Kansas Territory

Lawrence, Kansas
surface form: Lawrence, Kansas Territory

Leavenworth, Kansas, United States
surface form: Leavenworth, Kansas Territory
startDate 1854-05-30
timeZone Central Time Zone

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military governor Bennet C. Riley regionOfActivity Kansas Territory (as namesake of Fort Riley)
subject surface form: Bennet C. Riley