Bleeding Kansas (1 giug 1854 anni – 1 gen 1861 anni)

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Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 involving anti-slavery Free States and pro-slavery Border Ruffian or southern elements in Kansas. At the heart of the conflict was the question of whether Kansas would allow or outlaw slavery, and thus enter the Union as a slave state or a free state. The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 called for "popular sovereignty that is, the decision about slavery was to be made by the settlers. It would be decided by votes or more exactly which side had more votes counted by officials.