AHC Kansas joins the CSA

The challenge is to make the state of Kansas leave the USA and join the CSA. a CSA winning and conquering Kansas does not count.
 
Divine intervention? Kansas was one of the most pro-Union states out there. You don't have to worry about CSA conquering Kansas because unless they are being spotted the Heer they aren't doing it ! :p
 
Have it admitted as a slave state under the Lecompton Constitution, and have outraged free-staters refuse to participate in elections under that constitution, thus yielding the new state's government to the pro-slavery party.
 

Marc

Donor
That beginning of the poem "Le Marais Du Cygne" by John Greenleaf Whittier.

A BLUSH as of roses
Where rose never grew!
Great drops on the bunch-grass,
But not of the dew!
A taint in the sweet air
For wild bees to shun!
A stain that shall never
Bleach out in the sun!

It was called Bloody Kansas for good and sufficient reasons. Short of a genocidal attack on the clear majority of the territory's residents, this scenario is just about fantasy.
 
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The Majority of the Population was non slave owners. People from Missouri basically invaded the state to try and make it a slave state.
 
Have it admitted as a slave state under the Lecompton Constitution, and have outraged free-staters refuse to participate in elections under that constitution, thus yielding the new state's government to the pro-slavery party.

And the North would just allow the slavers to steal the election, why?
 

Gaius Julius Magnus

Gone Fishin'
The closest I could see is that the outbreak of the conflict some pro-slavery/southern partisans form a rival government and declare it as part of the Confederacy. Like what happened to Missouri.

You'd need to go back and develop a POD that leads to different migration patterns to the state for it to wholesale join the CSA.
 
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You would need a POD a long way back, which risks making the ACW being not as we know it. In particular, the fight over "bleeding Kansas" was a big part of the trigger for the ACW. Changing that could really affect the triggers for the ACW.

For a far back POD, say that the Missouri Compromise, say that the ATL Compromise Line is at Missouri's northern border rather than its southern, because *handwave*. That would turn Kansas into the fifth border state. That would at least make a secessionist Kansas a possibility in any *Civil War, albeit far from guaranteed.
 
You would need a POD a long way back, which risks making the ACW being not as we know it. In particular, the fight over "bleeding Kansas" was a big part of the trigger for the ACW. Changing that could really affect the triggers for the ACW.

For a far back POD, say that the Missouri Compromise, say that the ATL Compromise Line is at Missouri's northern border rather than its southern, because *handwave*. That would turn Kansas into the fifth border state. That would at least make a secessionist Kansas a possibility in any *Civil War, albeit far from guaranteed.

This is not only the best bet, but I've read when Stephen Douglas made 'popular sovereignty' as a concept he expected Southerners to settle Kansas and Northerners Nebraska, by sheer western-settlement pattern lines. I'll have to find my source, but it did make sense enough as it was.
 
Have it admitted as a slave state under the Lecompton Constitution, and have outraged free-staters refuse to participate in elections under that constitution, thus yielding the new state's government to the pro-slavery party.

This may be the only way. President James Buchanan actually asked Congress to admit Kansas to the Union as a slave state under the LeCompton Constitution (Feb. 2, 1858). Short of that, I don't see another way, unless Missouri gets involved in another election.
 
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