151:. The Wyandotte Constitution was approved by territorial referendum on October 4, 1859. In April 1860, the United States House of Representatives voted to admit Kansas under the Wyandotte Constitution. The Senate was still just as opposed to a new free state, and no action was taken until January 1861, when senators from the seceding slave states abandoned their seats. On the same day the last of them left, Monday, January 21, 1861, the Senate passed the Kansas bill. Kansas's admission as a free state became effective Tuesday, January 29, 1861.
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