Totty  Roots

       Please Email Additions/Corrections to The Totty Roots Research List
 
 

Kansas was a part of the Louisana purchase in 1803. Government expeditions to the area reported it to be a desert, starting the myth of the Great American Desert.  As the land was deemed unfit for white habitation, Indians from he East were moved into the area to live.  Hostilities betweent he whites and indians increased when the Santa Fe Trail traversed the state beginning in 1821.  To protect travelers, forts were established along the trail, beginning with Fort Leavenworth in 1827.  Later, the Oregon Trail crossed northeastern Kansas.
Kansas remained unorganized territory until 1854 when the Kansas-Nebraska Act created the Kansas and Nebraska territories.  Kansas had the same boundaries as today except that its western boundary was the "summit of the Rocky Mountains".  The Kansas-Nebraska Act also stipulated that the people of a territory would decide by majority vote whether Kansas would be a free or slave state.  This act stimulated migration to Kansas as both pro and antislavery forces tried to gain the upper hand.  The violence that marked the years from 1854 to statehood in 1861 led to the term "Bleeding Kansaas".  Kansas ultimately voted to be a free state.   Many of the indian tribes in the state agreed to leave the state by 1867 and move to Oklahoma.

Copyright Information and Restrictions:  Our Totty Roots Research Reports have been provided for the free use of those engaged in NON-Commercial genealogical research by our Totty Roots Research Group. Any and ALL commercial use is strictly prohibited.  These documents may be included in your own genealogy, however ALL these documents are copyrighted (to or by the authors to whom they are credited herin and copyright thereto) and may NOT be sold, nor given to anyone who may attempt to derive profit from these records.
Researchers may copy and distribute this work freely, but with the proviso that it may only be copied and circulated in its entirety -- including this notice, as well as all sources, bibliographies and credits.  HOWEVER, permission is NOT Granted to copy ANY Totty Roots Research Files to other electronic locations - whether web pages or list postings.

Sincerely, The TOTTY Roots Research Group

    Please email additions, corrections or questions to: totty-owner@totty-families.org

        Return to Totty Roots Counties (Records Index)

   Return to Totty Roots Master Index

   ALL Totty Roots Images created by Birdie (Totty) McNutt©

©1998-2009   Totty Roots Research Group*, ALL Rights Reserved.