Jayhawker and former Indiana Congressman Jim Lane founded Lane University to revitalize this city, which had been passed over for the state capital. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this city where pro-slavery politicians, endorsed by President Buchanan, drafted a namesake constitution to establish Kansas as a slave state.
ANSWER: Lecompton [accept Lecompton Constitution]
[10m] Lane held membership in this secret organization devoted to the free-state cause, which was inspired by paramilitary “bands” of a similarly named group that committed the Mountain Meadows Massacre after fleeing persecution from Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs.
ANSWER: Kansas Danites [prompt on Kansas Defenders or Kansas Regulators]
[10h] Lane led the Jayhawkers in an 1861 “sack” of this town, where they looted pro-slavery homes and Lane himself reportedly carried away an entire piano. That event motivated William Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence.
ANSWER: Osceola, Missouri [accept Sack of Osceola]
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