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The Kansas state constitution, known as the Wyandotte Constitution was approved October 4^th 1859, making Kansas a free state.

The State Constitution of Kansas; known as the Wyandotte Constitution, to differentiate it from the three constitutions that came before it, was approved by voters on October 4^th 1859 by a vote of 10,421 to 5,530.  Kansas was admitted to the Untied States as a free state on January 29^th 1861.  The Constitution was the result of a compromise over several sticky issues.  It banned slavery, confirmed women’s property rights along with their right to vote in school elections.  The three constitutions which came before were the 1855 Topeka Constitution, the 1857 Lecompton Constitution and the 1858 Leavenworth Constitution.