Examples of Bleeding Kansas in the following topics:
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- Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery elements between 1854 and 1861.
- As such, Bleeding Kansas was a proxy war between Northerners and Southerners over the issue of slavery in the United States.
- The result was conflict and violence leading to the events of "Bleeding Kansas. "
- Tragic Prelude by John Steuart Curry, illustrating John Brown and the clash of forces in Bleeding Kansas.
- Explain why Bleeding Kansas is considered a precursor to the Civil War
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- The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, however, drafted by
Democrat Stephen A.
- The result was
violence, leading to the events of a conflict known as "Bleeding Kansas."
- “Bleeding Kansas” is the term used to refer to the political violence
that erupted in Kansas territory and neighboring Missouri towns between
proslavery and abolitionist forces.
- Proslavery settlers came to Kansas mainly from
neighboring Missouri, and some residents of Missouri crossed into Kansas solely for the
purpose of voting in territorial elections.
- Hostilities
between the factions reached a state of low-intensity civil war, damaging Franklin Pierce's administration as the nascent Republican Party sought to capitalize on
the scandal of "Bleeding Kansas" in the upcoming election.
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- Brown had proven himself willing to use violence to attain his ends in the past: He had been involved in a murderous raid on some slavery supporters in
Bleeding Kansas on Pottawatomie Creek in the Kansas Territory.
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- The
movement for annexation grew even more intense as free states from the Western
territories were admitted to the Union and political conflict erupted in the
wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, upsetting the already delicate balance of
power between slave and free states in the Senate.
- It became a rallying cry for
Northerners in the events that would later be termed "Bleeding Kansas," and the
political fallout was a significant setback for the Pierce Administration.
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- Ballot rigging, violence, and
conflict ensued in the territory, leading to a low-intensity civil war
referred to as "Bleeding Kansas."
- In 1861, Kansas was admitted to the Union as a
free state.
- Frémont,
who publicly criticized the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery
into U.S. territories.
- In 1857, settlers in Kansas were faced with voting on a
constitution that outlined a government for the territory.
- The Lecompton
Constitution was the second of four proposed constitutions for the state of
Kansas.
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- Brown led two actions for the purpose of abolishing slavery—the Pottawatomie Massacre in Bleeding Kansas in 1856 and an unsuccessful raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
- The “Caning of Sumner” in May 1856 followed a speech given by Sumner two days earlier, in which he condemned slavery in no uncertain terms, declaring: “[Admitting Kansas as a slave state] is the rape of a virgin territory, compelling it to the hateful embrace of slavery; and it may be clearly traced to a depraved longing for a new slave state, the hideous offspring of such a crime, in the hope of adding to the power of slavery in the national government.”
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- The Exodus of 1879, also known as the Kansas Exodus or the Exoduster Movement, refers to the mass movement of African Americans from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century.
- In the 1880s, blacks bought more than 20,000 acres of land in Kansas, and several of the settlements made during this time still exist today (such as Nicodemus, Kansas, founded in 1877).
- Many blacks left the South with the belief that they were receiving free passage to Kansas only to be stranded in St.
- Louis to reach Kansas.
- The Kansas Fever Exodus refers specifically to six thousand blacks who moved from Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas to Kansas.
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- The Lecompton Constitution, drafted by proslavery factions, was a state
constitution proposed for the state of Kansas that rivaled the constitution proposed by the
Free-Soil faction.
- In
1857, settlers in Kansas were faced with voting on a constitution that outlined
a government for the territory.
- The Lecompton Constitution was the second of
four proposed constitutions for the state of Kansas.
- Both
the Topeka and Lecompton Constitutions were placed before the people of the
Kansas Territory for a vote, and both votes were boycotted by supporters of the
opposing faction.
- While
the president received the support of the Southern Democrats, Northern
Democrats and Republicans denounced the blatant violation of the will of the
popular majority in Kansas.
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- The Exodus of 1879, also known as the "Kansas Exodus" or the "Exoduster Movement," was the mass movement of African Americans from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century.
- In the 1880s, blacks bought more than 20,000 acres of land in Kansas, and several of the settlements made during this time still exist today (such as Nicodemus, Kansas, founded in 1877).
- Many blacks left the South with the belief that they were receiving free passage to Kansas only to be stranded in St.
- Louis to reach Kansas.
- The "Kansas Fever Exodus" refers specifically to 6,000 blacks who moved from Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas to Kansas.
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- Photo of Jackie Robinson in Kansas City Royals uniform.
- The Kansas City Royals of the time were the barnstorming team of the Kansas City Monarchs Negro League club.