jan 1, 1855 - Bleeding Kansas

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The period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas in 1854. In all, some 55 people were killed between 1855 and 1859.

• Violent uprising
• Proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.

•New England Emigrant Aid Company
– One of the organizations created to encourage abolitionist settlement of Kansas
• John Brown
• Lecomption Constitution
– Pro-slavery Constitution, Senate rejects Kansas


Proposed Kansas state constitution; protected the rights of slaveholders already in Kansas and provided referendum in which voters could vote for the "Constitution with Slavery" or the "Constitution with no Slavery"; supported by President Buchanan but rejected by the House of Representatives.

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