Kansas

Kansas is a state of the United States. In the decade leading up to the War of Secession, the state was known as "Bleeding Kansas" as abolitionists and anti-abolitionists did battle over whether the state would be admitted to the Union as a slave state.

Kansas was finally admitted as a free state. In the years prior to the Second Mexican War, the Confederate government allowed Indians living in Indian Territory to cross over the border and raid Kansas.

After the Great War, Fort Benton, Kansas became the home of the Kansas Barrel Works under the command of Irving Morrell. Production here was suspended when Upton Sinclair became president of the United States.