<P> During Kansas ' first elections for a territorial government on March 30 , 1855 , nearly 5,000 Missouri men , led by United States Senator David Rice Atchison and other prominent pro-slavery Missourians , entered the territory , took over the polling places , and elected pro-slavery candidates . The elections resulted in 13 pro-slavery members of the upper house of the territorial legislature and one free - state member , who resigned . The lower house ended up with 25 pro-slavery members and one free - state member . Free - Staters immediately cried foul , naming the new Kansas Territorial Legislature the Bogus Legislature . After meeting for one week in Pawnee at the direction of Territorial Governor Andrew Reeder , the thirty - eight pro-slavery legislators reconvened at the Shawnee Manual Labor School between July 16 and August 30 , 1855 , and began crafting over a thousand pages of laws aimed at making Kansas a slave state . </P>
<P> During Kansas ' first elections for a territorial government on March 30 , 1855 , nearly 5,000 Missouri men , led by United States Senator David Rice Atchison and other prominent pro-slavery Missourians , entered the territory , took over the polling places , and elected pro-slavery candidates . The elections resulted in 13 pro-slavery members of the upper house of the territorial legislature and one free - state member , who resigned . The lower house ended up with 25 pro-slavery members and one free - state member . Free - Staters immediately cried foul , naming the new Kansas Territorial Legislature the Bogus Legislature . After meeting for one week in Pawnee at the direction of Territorial Governor Andrew Reeder , the thirty - eight pro-slavery legislators reconvened at the Shawnee Manual Labor School between July 16 and August 30 , 1855 , and began crafting over a thousand pages of laws aimed at making Kansas a slave state . </P>
when did the bogus legislature meet for the first time
when did the bogus legislature meet for the first time
July 16 and August 30 , 1855
July 16 and August 30 , 1855