Kansas's Lecompton Constitution

The Lecompton constitution was drafted to help resolve the slavery issue in Kansas. You see, after Bleeding Kansas, President Buchanan urged the territory to apply for statehood to help resolves the problems; so pro-slavery legislature held an election for delegates to a constitutional convention, but anti-slavery supporters from Kansas interrupted the meeting because they believed the convention was rigged. The resulting Lecompton Constitution legalized slavery in Kansas. Although Congress had passed the constitution, Kansas did not achieve statehood until 1861 because settlers did not want slavery in their state. The Lecompton Constitution pushed the nation further to the civil war because the issue, yet again, involved the North and South fighting over which state should become free or not.