bleedingkansas



Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations between anti-slavery and pro-slavery people in the Union. The heart of the problem was deciding wether or not Kansas would enter into the Union as a slave state of the South or a free state of the North. Congress had struggled over the balance of free and slave states for many years prior to this. They events known commonly known as "Bleeding Kansas" were started off by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which nullified the Missouri Compromise, applying the concept of popular sovereignty. Not long after antislavery settlers founded a town named Lawrence, a proslavery judge called the sheriff to arrest them. On May 21st in 1856, 800 armed men came and burned down the houses and stores of the antislavery people. The news later spread to abolitionist John Brown and set out for revenge on the South. He lead the northerners to attack the southerners, just as they had done to them. This massacre triggered dozens of incidents throughout Kansas and throughout the Union, as this was just the beginning to a long and dreadful civil war.

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