called the new england emigrant aid society,

名字叫新英格兰移民救助社
They recruited settlers, they raised money, they paid

他们接纳移民者募集款项
People's way out to Kansas, in some cases.

他们帮助人们解决去堪萨斯州的盘缠
Kansas now became a kind of symbol and reality.

堪萨斯州成了一种象征和现实
Out on its border, of course--its eastern border was

州界外它的东边
ehe state of Missouri, which was a slave state,

与密苏里州接壤那里是个奴隶制州
And Missourians began to flock across the border into kansas, taking land.

密苏里人也开始大批进入堪萨斯州
By march of 1855,

到了1855年3月
only one year, less than a year,

在这一年里还不到一年的时间
11 months after the passage of the kansas-nebraska act,

堪萨斯州与内布拉斯加州法案出台后的11个月里
They held their first election for a territorial legislature

他们在堪萨斯州的土地上开展了
in the territory of Kansas.

第一次选土地立法机关的选举