For 10 points, name this state that bled in a fight over slavery in the mid-1850s.
Juan Padilla founded the first settlement in what is now this state, and its notable political leaders have included the vice-president of Herbert Hoover, Charles Curtis, and Senator Nancy Kassebaum. The 1936 Republican presidential nominee, Alfred Landon, was from this state, where Bushwhackers massacred over two hundred people in 1863. Border Ruffians entered this state to support the Lecompton Constitution, and this state was the site of the Pottawatomie Massacre. For 10 points, name this state that bled in a fight over slavery in the mid-1850s.
Juan Padilla founded the first settlement in what is now this state, and its notable political leaders have included the vice-president of Herbert Hoover, Charles Curtis, and Senator Nancy Kassebaum.
Kansas