Rock Chalk, what is a JAYHAWK? Duke fans might not know. But a history major might.

Prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, an abolitionist movement in the new territory of Kansas was led by “jayhawkers.”

Jayhawkers were settlers who moved west…into this new territory of Kansas. Jayhawkers possessed an ideology which was predicated upon the admission of the new territory of Kansas into the union as a free state. The acknowledged territorial capital of this new Kansas territory – at that time – was Lecompton. Yet jayhawkers – i.e.: abolitionists – established their own unofficial territory capital – and their own unofficial legislature – in Topeka.

Two capitals, two legislatures, in two different cities.