may 21, 1856 - Bleeding Kansas
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In 1856, the pro-slavery and free soil residents began to use violence against each other, which prompted Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune to label the territory "Bleeding Kansas". A pro-slavery force, seven hundred strong, looted and burned the free-soil town of Lawrence, Kansas. The attack enraged John Brown, a fifty-six-year-old abolitionist from New York and Ohio, who commanded a free-state militia. Brown and his followers murdered five pro-slavery settlers at Pottawatomie. The attack on Lawrence and the Pattawatomie killings started a guerrilla war in Kansas that took nearly two hundred lives.
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