19h 42min, may 21, 1856 y - Sack of Lawrence
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After Kansas became a territory, there was fighting over whether slavery should be allowed to expand into Kansas Territory. Proslavery men burned Lawrence and threw a printing press in the Kansas River. Fighting continued in the territory, which led to Kansas’ nickname, “Bleeding Kansas.” Name M-16 The Civil War Comes to Kansas: Quantrill’s Raid on Lawrence ©2009 Kansas Historical Society 1854
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