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**Bleeding Kansas**

Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri between 1854 and 1861. The reason it is called bleeding Kansas is because of all the fights and blood that was shed. Bleeding Kansas lead to the Civil War because many people did not believe in the same ideas and many of them killed for what they believe in. Some people believed slaves were alright and others didn't.

Photo "Bleeding Kansas 1856-1857." Bleeding Kansas 1856-1857. Web. 14 Sept. 2015. . Text Danzer, Gerald A. The Americans. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Print.