pro-slavery mingling together in the kansas territory , the territory exploded in violence. , attractedrrorism men like john brown and his sons, and starting in 1854, a pre civil war began, and it was nicknamed bleeding kansas. warfare was going on in kansas territory. this is over who would control this new territory. the next that is to create a legislature. then write a constitution that is approved by the voters of the territory, and then it will be sent to washington for andfication by congress, finally, signed by the president of the united states. 1/2 years kansas was a territory, there were four attempts at constitution writing. the free state government wrote themselves a free state constitution, the topeka constitution. it was sent to washington for approval, and it was rejected. by the way, most people thought that the constitution had been lost forever. 2013, in the national archives, they rediscovered the topeka constitution, so it is an washington, d.c., at the national archives. in 1855, there was an election for the first territorial legislation. 1855.as in march of the first g