U.S. House Approves the Wyandotte Constitution

Wednesday, April 11, 1860

Samuel Forster Tappan, a Kansas resident who served as secretary of the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention. Courtesy of the Kansas Historical Society.

The U.S. House approves the Wyandotte Constitution, which will admit Kansas into the Union as a free state.

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