Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas, or the Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri...
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question of whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state, in a period known as Bleeding Kansas. On January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union...
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slavery and contributing to a series of armed conflicts known as "Bleeding Kansas." The United States had acquired vast amounts of land in the 1803 Louisiana...
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Midwestern United States (section Bleeding Kansas)
conflict was the question of whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free state or slave state. As such, Bleeding Kansas was a proxy war between Northerners...
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Franklin Pierce (section Bleeding Kansas)
able to restore order in Kansas, though the electoral damage had already been done—Republicans used "Bleeding Kansas" and "Bleeding Sumner" (the brutal caning...
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financial aid and support for the settlement. Lawrence was central to the Bleeding Kansas period (1854–1861), and the site of the Wakarusa War (1855) and the...
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(antislavery) and pro-slavery settlers, which developed into the "Bleeding Kansas" period. The antislavery settlers, with the help of Northern abolitionists...
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Caning of Charles Sumner (redirect from Bleeding sumner)
Crime against Kansas In 1856, during the "Bleeding Kansas" crisis, Sumner denounced the Kansas–Nebraska Act in his "Crime against Kansas" speech, delivered...
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roots in Bleeding Kansas, but mutual distrust has continued off and on since then, even in sporting contexts. These states also share the Kansas City metropolitan...
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Jayhawker (redirect from Kansas Red Legs)
Jayhawker and red leg are terms that came to prominence in Kansas Territory during the Bleeding Kansas period of the 1850s; they were adopted by militant bands...
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John Brown (abolitionist) (category Bleeding Kansas)
prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia...
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period called Bleeding Kansas. Both pro-slavery and free-state partisans encouraged and sometimes financially supported emigration to Kansas, so as to influence...
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connected with the American Old West and with the American Civil War ("Bleeding Kansas"), including the history of the notorious guerrilla commander William...
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Border ruffian (redirect from Massachusetts State Kansas Committee)
a major part of a series of violent civil confrontations known as "Bleeding Kansas", which peaked from 1854 to 1858. Crimes committed by border ruffians...
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J. E. B. Stuart (section Bleeding Kansas)
Texas and Kansas with the U.S. Army. Stuart was a veteran of the frontier conflicts with Native Americans and the violence of Bleeding Kansas, and he participated...
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during the Bleeding Kansas era. Nicknamed "The Little Apple" as a play on New York City's moniker of the "Big Apple", Manhattan is the home of Kansas State...
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and become a part of the greater conflict known as Bleeding Kansas. With the admission of Kansas into the Union as a free state in 1861, violence began...
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Free-Staters was the name given to settlers in Kansas Territory during the "Bleeding Kansas" period in the 1850s who opposed the expansion of slavery....
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American frontier (section Bleeding Kansas)
Knife: Bleeding Kansas, 1854–1861 (2004) Dale Watts, "How Bloody Was Bleeding Kansas? Political Killings in Kansas territory, 1854–1861", Kansas History...
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Presidency of Franklin Pierce (section Bleeding Kansas)
the electoral damage had already been done—Republicans used "Bleeding Kansas" and "Bleeding Sumner" (the brutal caning of Charles Sumner) as election slogans...
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Pottawatomie massacre (category Bleeding Kansas)
of the many violent episodes of the "Bleeding Kansas" period, during which a state-level civil war in the Kansas Territory was described as a "tragic...
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James Montgomery (soldier) (category Bleeding Kansas)
(December 22, 1814 – December 6, 1871) was a Jayhawker during the Bleeding Kansas era and a controversial Union colonel during the American Civil War...
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Missouri, about half of whom lived in the 18 western counties near the Kansas border. The institution of slavery only became especially prominent in the...
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Sacking of Lawrence (category Bleeding Kansas)
The incident fueled the irregular conflict in Kansas Territory that later became known as Bleeding Kansas. The human cost of the attack was low: only one...
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Charles R. Jennison (category People from Kansas Territory)
member of the anti-slavery faction during Bleeding Kansas, a famous Jayhawker, and a member of the Kansas State Senate in the 1870s. He later served...
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the violence of Bleeding Kansas and directed the Pottawatomie massacre on May 24, 1856, in response to the sacking of Lawrence, Kansas. In 1859, Brown...
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From 1855 to 1858, Kansas Territory experienced extensive violence and some open battles. This period, known as "Bleeding Kansas" or "the Border Wars"...
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This is a list of counties in the U.S. state of Kansas. Select from the links at right to go directly to an article, or browse the listing below for additional...
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Bushwhacker (category Bleeding Kansas)
atrocities during the Civil War were in many ways a continuation of Bleeding Kansas violence. Besides the Lawrence Massacre, the most notorious atrocity...
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David Rice Atchison (category Bleeding Kansas)
violence against abolitionists and other free-staters during the "Bleeding Kansas" events that preceded admission of the state to the Union. Atchison...
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