Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S.…

Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state on January 29, 1861, though statehood had come too late for Kansas to vote in the 1860 election.

Homesteading in Kansas has raised the population to one hundred thousand by the end of 1860; the conflict between pro- and antislavery forces has claimed the lives of more than two hundred.

In this year, the capital is located in Topeka by popular vote, out-polling nearby Lawrence by some twenty-seven hundred ballots.