The English Bill was drafted on April 23, 1858, it was an offer made by the United States Congress to Kansas Territory.
Kansas was offered some millions of acres of public lands in exchange for accepting the Lecompton Constitution.
[1] The bill itself was not a bribe to the degree that it is usually considered to be, as it reduced the grant of land demanded by the Lecompton Ordinance from 23,500,000 to 3,500,000 acres (95,000 to 14,000 km2), and offered only the normal cession to new states.
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