Kansas's Lecompton Constitution

The slavery issue really caused some tension in the government, especially over "bleeding Kansas" because officials couldnt agree between slavery there or no slavery. So when Kansas tried to become a state, they struggled to agree on how it would be represented. It even got to a point where fist fights would break out in the middle of sessions. Then they decided to hold a popular vote, which allowed the antislavery forces to vote down the constitution and the pro-slavery forces approved it. But President Buchanan accepted the pro-slavery vote, and asked that Kansas be entered into the Union as a slave state. The senate quickly voted to accept the Lecompton Constitution, but the House of Representatives denied it. Even Stephen Douglas didnt agree with the situation, he was a Northern leader, but he understood the compromise in order to keep the South in the Union. Government officials decided that they would allow another referendum, and if settlers rejected it, they would hold off statehood for another two years. In 1858 the settlers voted, and rejected the Lecompton Constitution, they didnt want slavery in their state, which led to Kansas becoming not becoming a state until 1861.