Kansas could have in the 1820s... longer Trail of Tears though. But once Americans start the Oregon, California, Mormon, and Santa Fe trails and using them to go west this will cause Americans to push for Kansas to be opened up and pacified so settlers are free to cross. Hard to have a migration trail through an Indian reservation.Could Kansas have become the Indian Territory instead of Oklahoma? Might have postponed some problems in the 1850s.
It is possible but causes butterflies to every state after Arkansas, probably a longer Kansas to be begin with, probably 1 or 2 degrees west, which means a "taller" Colorado. Nebraska and both Dakotas are longer or one not as long Dakota with a more easterly Montana that doesn't get a portion of Idaho, so a wider northern Idaho.So you don't think it's possible at all for the territory to stay united?
It is possible but causes butterflies to every state after Arkansas, probably a longer Kansas to be begin with, probably 1 or 2 degrees west, which means a "taller" Colorado. Nebraska and both Dakotas are longer or one not as long Dakota with a more easterly Montana that doesn't get a portion of Idaho, so a wider northern Idaho.
Missouri Compromise excludes Texas from having the Oklahoma panhandle, that's why it was separated from Texas in the first place. Which now that I think of it means in 1836 Arkansas as a state that includes Oklahoma will have to give up a similar strip north of Missouri's southern border. This means Kansas will end up with that strip. The Oklahoma strip will go on being the Cimarron Strip until the Missouri Compromise is over turned by the Kansas Nebraska Act, most likely Texas gets it at that point, maybe Colorado and Kansas depending on where Kansas' western border had been placed.So maybe Texas gets the Oklahoma panhandle assuming it still proceeds on its path.... and then the Texas NM border continues northward as a Colorado Kansas border and Colorado has its northern border running along the CA NV northern border line? Guess that would make for a uniform Utah box too.