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    Bleeding kansas, a conflict that took place in the territory of the Louisiana purchase. People fought over slavery in 1854-1861, towns were destroyed and many people were killed. It precluded to the Civil War and the compromise was the Kansas-Nebraska act. There was conflict in the Kansas Nebraska territories due to slavery. Opposing governments were made in 1855, one government was pro slavery the other was anti slavery. These two parties clashed over slavery. Pro slavery people shipped

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    Bleeding Kansas The Compromise of 1850 brought relative calm to the nation. Though most blacks and abolitionists strongly opposed the Compromise, the majority of Americans embraced it, believing that it offered a final, workable solution to the slavery question. Most importantly, it saved the Union from the terrible split that many had feared. People were all too ready to leave the slavery controversy behind them and move on. But the feeling of relief that spread throughout the country would prove

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    Bleeding Kansas Analysis

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    While the events in Kansas spurred debates in Congress and in many ways added to the growing divide between North and South, the violence did not spread outside of Kansas and there were no large scale battles between proslavery and antislavery groups. Much of the credit for the maintenance of relative law and order is owed to the United States Army. The Army acted as a peace keeping force between the two opposing political factions, often called in by the Governor to assist in disbanding militias

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    #4 Choices: Bleeding Kansas Bleeding Kansas was a period in time filled with violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. It was a small war fought between proslavery and antislavery for control of the Kansas territory. “In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory and instead, using the principle of popular sovereignty, decreed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free state

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    “Bleeding Kansas” had many senseless deaths and tragedies caused by the fight for slavery to either become a part of or become eradicated from the new state, Kansas. David Atchison was a major proslavery advocate who believed that slavery needed to be expanded because of its intrinsic value in the culture and economy of the South (Hollitz 210). Sara Robinson, on the other hand, believed that slavery was giving the South unfair political power while simultaneously giving them an economic power that

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    6. Bleeding Kansas-During the settling of the Kansas territory the period of violence between anti-slavery settlers and pro slavery settlers was called “Bleeding Kansas”. John Brown was the leader of the anti-slavery party and he would kill people for the cause such as his planned raid on Harpers Ferry. He was one of the first non-African Americans to put his life on line for the cause of removing slavery 7. Manifest Destiny- Manifest Destiny originated in the 1840s and it was the idea that expanding

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    The Bleeding Kansas

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    spilling American blood no matter who won how many battles. But before all of this, another fight was carrying on. It was fought for nearly identical reasons, only on a smaller scale. The Bleeding Kansas was a fight over the decision to make Kansas a slave state or a free state. It was brought about by the Nebraska-Kansas Act, put forth by Senator Stephan A. Douglas. The decision to leave the choice up to popular sovereignty led to the early clashes

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    Bleeding Kansas

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    Months earlier, another civil war took place, one nicknamed “Bleeding Kansas.” “Bleeding Kansas” was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed in 1854. Though tension had been building for years, the Kansas-Nebraska was the leading cause of the American Civil War. The violence that took place after the Kansas-Nebraska Act remains unrivaled through history. Only this extreme-violence could cause the tragedy that is the civil war. The Kansas-Nebraska Act infuriated the North. Some say that the North

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    Riot) In the 1850's, more American pioneers moved west, bringing with them slavery that would ignite the Civil War. Tactics that had defeated the armies of the South would then begin to be used against the Native Americans of the West. In "Bleeding Kansas," abolitionists battle for free soil. In Utah, federal troops march against Mormon their practice of polygamy. The war between North and South unleashes visceral savagery in the West, and leaves behind an army prepared for total war against the

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    Unit 2 Dcush test review Study online at quizlet.com/_4x96e 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. "Bleeding" Kansas A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent. 10% Plan This was Lincoln 's reconstruction plan for after the Civil War. Written in 1863, it proclaimed that a state could be reintegrated

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