What name was given to the fight between proslavery and antislavery forces following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
2 Answers
"Bleeding Kansas"
Explanation:
From 1854 to the end of the Civil War violent confrontations between pro and anti slavery groups was common.
Towns were raided and burnt, ambushes and other violent acts happened during this time.
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Bleeding Kansas also Bloody Kansas and the Border Wars.
Explanation:
From 1854- 1861 the America Civil War started in Kansas. 56 people were murdered during the struggles for political dominance of Kansas.
The Kansas Nebraska law made popular sovereignty the determining law as to the status of the these territories when they became states. Pro slavery forces from Missouri flooded into Kansas during elections to give pro slavery forces control of the new state.
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Pro Slavery forces murdered Thomas Berder. In a raid pro slavery force burned the center of the pro free state forces Lawrence destroying the newspaper offices.
Pro Free state forces under John Brown on May 24 murdered 5 people in a pro slavery town. John Brown would go on to execute the raid on the armory at Harper's Ferry to instigate a Slave revolt, and was executed.
The fighting in Kansas was actually the beginning of the American Civil War.
