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	Bleeding Kansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bleeding Kansas, sometimes referred to in the history of Kansas as Bloody Kansas or the Border War, was a sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory between roughly 1854 and 1856.
		The Act established that the question of the expansion of slavery in the new States of Kansas and Nebraska would be decided by the inhabitants of the states.
		This resulted in organized immigration to Kansas from the northern States to prevent the expansion of slavery, and from southern States, most notably Missouri, to secure the expansion of slavery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bleeding_Kansas (337 words)

	Bleeding Kansas
		Rumors had spread through the South that 20,000 Northerners were descending on Kansas, and in November 1854, thousands of armed Southerners, mostly from Missouri, poured over the line to vote for a proslavery congressional delegate.
		The abolitionist senator Charles Sumner delivered a fiery speech called "The Crime Against Kansas," in which he accused proslavery senators, particularly Atchison and Andrew Butler of South Carolina, of [cavorting with the] "harlot, Slavery." In retaliation, Butler's nephew, Congressman Preston Brooks, attacked Sumner at his Senate desk and beat him senseless with a cane.
		Several attempts were made to draft a constitution which Kansas could use to apply for statehood.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part4/4p2952.html (1284 words)

	Ghosts of Kansas Investigation
		During the years leading up to the Civil War, the state was known as "Bloody Kansas" as those both opposed and in support of slavery clashed in terrible incidents that left many dead.
		In the years that followed, Kansas was a part of the western movement and many travelers crossed over her on their way to points west.
		Kansas was also a staging point for the Army's war against the American Indian, leading to more bloodshed and disaster.
	www.webspawner.com /users/ghostsofkansasinvest (808 words)

	Office of the Governor of Kansas: Governor Kathleen Sebelius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kansas is a leading agriculture state, as close to 50 million acres of Kansas land are devoted to farming.
		The leading crops in Kansas are wheat, grain sorghums, forage sorghums, sorghum silage, corn, soybeans, sugar beets, oats, alfalfa hay, barley, alfalfa seed, wild hay, lespedeza seed, dehydrated alfalfa, cattle, sheep, and hogs.
		Kansas earned the nickname “Bloody Kansas” because of the war regarding slavery, much of which was fought on Kansas' soil.
	www.ksgovernor.org /kansas_intseal.html (789 words)

	Jefferson Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The leaders of Kansas Territory were much preoccupied with the events of Bloody Kansas and the fate of their own state—little time or attention was available to attend to the needs of Colorado.
		Those resistant to the self-government of Jefferson Territory held an election on December 8, 1859 and elected a representative to the Kansas Territorial Legislature from Arapahoe County.
		Approximately 35,000 lived in the area of Jefferson Territory (still considered Arapahoe County, Kansas Territory as far as U.S. Census enumerators were concerned) in 1860.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jefferson_Territory (494 words)

	Voices, KanColl's Online Magazine: "The Civil War...." (Dec 96)
		Before June passed into July all of Kansas Territory was on a war basis and the entire nation held reserved seats for the blood-spilling spectacle.
		Kansas, with its bloody conflict, was the keynote of the gathering.
		Significant it is that 80 years later Kansas, proud of its heritage and yet at peace and on neighborly terms with all the states both North and South, once again in June of 1936 provided the main attraction for the Republican convention in Cleveland.
	www.kancoll.org /voices/1996/1296plac.htm (765 words)

	ipedia.com: Bleeding Kansas Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bleeding Kansas, sometimes referred to as Bloody Kansas, was a sequence of violent events that took place in Kansas Territory between roughly 1854 and 1856.
		The territory bordered Missouri, a state where slavery was allowed, and the area became a battleground for pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces who fought over whether the resulting state of Kansas should be a slave state or a free state.
		A few famous people involved with Bleeding Kansas are John Brown and Silas Soule.
	www.ipedia.com /bleeding_kansas.html (161 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ingalls was a U.S. senator from Kansas, and Glick was a Kansas governor.
		It was the Glick statue that the Kansas Legislature in 1971 and 1987 voted to remove from the hall, but the folks in Washington quashed the idea.
		Kansas, the Legislature was told, is stuck with whom it put there.
	www.cjonline.com /fieldedFiles/011999/fame (784 words)

	World History 1850- 1860 AD
		The "free soilers," those who opposed slavery in Kansas, were outraged by this fraud and set up their own government in Topeka.
		The underlying issue remained: was Kansas to be a free state or a slave state.
		The Kansas legislature passed, over the veto of Geary,a constitution that would insure the state would become a slave states.
	www.multied.com /dates/1850ad.html (1666 words)

	Enchanted Realm B&B Area Events & Activities
		Kansas City is known as the "Heart of America," centrally located within 250 miles of both the geographic and population centers of the nation.
		Kansas City is a thriving metropolis with great ballet, a spectacular symphony, many live theatres, and, of course, great food.
		Jazz in Kansas City was born in the 1920s and continues today in clubs and events held throughout the city.
	www.enchantedrealmbb.com /ERBBLocalEvents.htm (1376 words)

	Wichita and Kansas Books
		Roadside Kansas, the perfect glove-compartment companion, is a guide to the geology, natural resources, and landscapes along nine of the state's major highways.
		Wichita, Kansas, has grown significantly since the mid-19th century, when a group of pioneering entrepreneurs arrived to build on the trading and hunting activities of the Osage and Wichita peoples.
		A guide to the Kansas of 85 million years ago when the state was covered by a vast ocean and real sea monsters lived here.
	www.wichitalinks.com /mall/ict_books.html (2358 words)

	Jesse James: Riding Hell-Bent for Leather into Legend
		Migrating west in the 1850s to "Bloody Kansas," his extremist Southern leanings became evident when he formed a troop of border ruffians to sack farm owners of opposing political sentiment.
		When he learned that the authorities in the town of Lawrence, Kansas, were spearheading a plan to bring about his demise, he charged the town in front of his forces and burned it to the ground.
		Bloody gloves and strange tire tracks provide clues to the whereabouts of a missing woman.
	www.crimelibrary.com /americana/jesse/3.htm (2106 words)

	History of Hodgeman County - Kansas Centennial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kansas became the 34th state of the Union in 1861 after a long and bloody struggle between the proponents of slavery and the free-state forces, aggravated by the general disorder and lawlessness attendant upon the settling of a new territory and the guerrilla tactics employed by the rival factions.
		A reign of terror prevailed and the state became known as bloody Kansas.
		Much of her later population was made up of veterans of the war, both white and Negro, who saw in the west a place of opportunity where land was free and a man's possibilities were measured only by his vision, industry and tenacity.
	www.idir.net /~hodgman/hodgeman-county-history/kansas-centennial.html (274 words)

	BLOODY KANSAS: HATE CRIMES IN WICHITA? [Free Republic]
		District Attorney Nola Tedesco Foulston, responding to a rash of complaints, held a news conference to explain that she was unable to charge the Carrs with hate crimes because Kansas has no hate-crimes law.
		The death penalty in Kansas was reinstated in 1994.
		Kansas Supreme Court justices heard arguments December 6, 2000 in the appeal of convicted killer Gary Wayne Kleypas.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a8847a34fd0.htm (2172 words)

	August Bondi
		Brown led Free State forces in Bloody Kansas, which many historians see as a rehearsal for the Civil War, and reached the height of his notoriety in a raid on the Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.
		The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 decreed that in 1855 the settlers in the Kansas Territory would decide by vote whether Kansas would be a slave or free state.
		After the war, Bondi settled in Salina, Kansas, where he served as land clerk, postmaster, member of the school board, director of the state board of charities, a local court judge and a trustee of the Kansas Historical Society.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/bondi.html (755 words)

	Bloody Kansas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bloody Kansas - Wichita - home invasion, kidnap, robbery, gang rape, and executions of at least five white victims by fl Carr brothers...
		Kansas was a powder keg that exploded into a bloody civil war, characterized by lynching, bushwhacking, and burning- a continuous stream of...
		History of life in Kansas after a bill, with the backing of Stephen A. Douglas, became law on May 30, 1854.
	www.travelkansas.info /browse/bloody-kansas.html (177 words)

	Rare Books: Older acquisitions
		Although Parker was too old to move to Kansas to participate in the struggles against slavery here, he lectured and raised a great deal of money for those who were trying to make Kansas a free state (including John Brown).
		He served in the 5th Kansas Infantry and the 10th Kansas Infantry during the Civil War and a large part of this memoir is his Civil War diary.
		The 8th Kansas was one of the very few Kansas regiments to fight in battles EAST of the Mississippi River.
	www.lib.ksu.edu /depts/spec/rarebooks/new1999.html (3879 words)

	Missouri Civil War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The 1850's were a turbulent period of political and social struggle in our nation's history, but along the Missouri-Kansas border a bloody struggle ensued over the question of slavery in Kansas.
		A graduate from the West Point class of 1841, Lyon served in the Seminole War, Mexican War and was posted in Kansas during the period of turmoil known as Bleeding Kansas.
		His Kansas experience shaped his political views on slavery and he became an ardent abolitionist.
	www.mocivilwar.org /history/1861_1.php?ID=3 (729 words)

	Chapter 6 Summary of Kenneth Stampp's "America in 1857" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He organized and led the free-state militia and continued to be a militant threat whenever the Kansans were threatened by proslavery usurpation of government.
		Stampp's account of Robert J. Walker's experience as official territorial governor is especially interesting because of Robinson's predicament after initially receiving assurance of support from Buchanan for honest elections in Kansas, then devastating betrayal when congressional support was essential to correct the outrageous injustices of the proslavery faction.
		"The people of Kansas have the right to be protected in the peaceful election of delegates for such a purpose," Buchanan states in his communication of March 30th through his Secretary of State, Lewis Cass.
	carbon.cudenver.edu /~rpekarek/Stampp6.html (485 words)

	Kansas maps and information page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Regardless of country claims, in the mid-1700s and early 1800s, Kansas was still a wide-open Indian territory, and tens of thousands of buffalo roamed the vast plains.
		When the U.S. bought Kansas from France in 1803 as part of the Louisiana Purchase, a few decades later, thousands of settlers from the east began flooding the territory.
		The fertile plains of eastern Kansas are quite hilly, especially to the east of Wichita in the Flint Hills.
	www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/namerica/usstates/ks.htm (930 words)

	Bloody Bill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bill was captured towards the end of the war by Union solders, then was shout in the back of the head twice.
		Bloody Bill hated federal soldiers because Union soldiers imprisoned a number of women folk in a building that collapsed and killed his sister.
		William got the name "Bloody Bill" because he killed a lot of enemies in war.
	www.d118.s-cook.k12.il.us /South/palosbday/bloodybill (124 words)

	Voices, KanColl's Online Magazine: "Bloody Kansas" (Dec 96) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		During the period 1855-1865, Kansas was torn by violence and dissension over the issue of slavery, violence so bitter that the territory and state became known as "Bleeding Kansas" and "Bloody Kansas."
		As Dr. John Gihon explains in "Governor Geary's Administration in Kansas," on paper the Kansas-Nebraska act provided for citizens of the territories to determine for themselves whether their area should be slave or free.
		It would be years before peace came to Kansas, and, as Harold C. Place observed in his 1936 article, "The Civil War Began in Kansas 80 Years Ago," that peace would only come after the entire nation had been engulfed in a wider war.
	www.kancoll.org /voices/1996/1296blks.htm (412 words)

	Jems Magazine -- Online Content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		And since I lived on the Kansas side of the KC area, I think I have a pretty good claim to be a Jayhawk.
		In the late 1850s, the eastern portion of the territory—it was not yet a state—was known as "Bloody Kansas" due to the bloodshed between slave owners and "free-soilers." Depending on what you believe, "Jayhawkers" were alternately border ruffians, vigilant citizens or simply people taking a wagon train west across the plains.
		Four counties in Kansas, home to the cities of Wichita, Shawnee Mission, Kansas City and Topeka, account for nearly 50% of the state’s population.
	www.jems.com /jems/exclus04/e0104a.html (2081 words)

	Dark Command (1940) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The fact is that Bloody Kansas was where the violence that became our Civil War began, and it lasted there for more than the four years of the actual war.
		Lawrence was the center of the abolitionist movement in the state, and it's leading citizen was James Lane, a particularly violent anti-slavery fanatic who became first Senator from the state.
		It does capture the spirit of sectionalism that rent Kansas society apart, and it does capture the nature of Quantrell and his opportunism.
	us.vdc.imdb.com /title/tt0032383 (924 words)

	JUDGE WILLIAM LITTLEBURY KUYKENDALL
		Pappan, who was married to a half-breed Kaw or Kansas Indian woman, was the owner of a section of land in what is now North Topeka and he operated a ferry on the road from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe, at the crossing of the Kaw River at his place.
		She was a good girl with a fair education and I was a boy then with no matrimonial intentions and not at all inclined, any more than I am at the present time, to inter-marriage between people of well defined and different races.
		This was the forerunner of the Civil War and laid the foundation for the later frightful destruction of life and property and desolation of the country along the border between Kansas and Missouri.
	millennium.fortunecity.com /sweetvalley/454/judgewlkuykendall.htm (16692 words)

	The Lawrence Massacre, Part One: Quantrell Raid, August 21, 1863, Kansas KS Civil War: KanColl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was evident, therefore, that the military authorities at Kansas City, who ought to know, did not consider the place in danger.
		A few turned aside to run down and shoot fugitive soldiers, but the company rushed on at the command- "To the hotel!" which could be heard all over the town.
		In all the bloody scenes which followed, nothing equalled, in wildness and terror, that which now presented itself.
	www.ku.edu /heritage/kshistory/quantrellraid.html (5085 words)

	Re-enactors serious about history \| LJWorld.com
		The lessons taught by characters reincarnated in the Bloody Kansas Chautauqua this weekend in Lawrence are as relevant today as they were in the days surrounding the Civil War, a Chautauqua re-enactor says.
		Charles Everett Pace is a Frederick Douglass scholar and instructor of anthropology and American studies at Centre College in Danville, Ky. He performs in the Chautauqua as the famed abolitionist.
		Clinton re-enactors, from left, Jimmy Johnson, of Kansas City, Mo., Jonny Johnson (with bugle), Lawrence, Nancy Durbin and Martha Parker dress in period costumes as they honor those who have been laid to rest in Clinton Cemetery.
	www.ljworld.com /section/150th/story/174166 (1239 words)

	Bleeding Kansas -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bleeding Kansas -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		A few famous people involved with Bleeding Kansas are John Brown and (Click link for more info and facts about Silas Soule) Silas Soule.
		It has been argued by some (A person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it) historians that the violence during this period was the true beginning of the (Civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865) American Civil War.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bl/bleeding_kansas.htm (130 words)

	CSA History Curriculum Part 5
		The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854: Congress established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska which again caused concern between North and South as to balance in the legislature, and the opportunity of popular sovereignty, a key component of states rights advocates.
		In his Crime Against Kansas speech, delivered in May 1856, he lambasted southern efforts to extend slavery into Kansas and attacked his colleague, Andrew P. Butler of South Carolina.
		The South was pictured as evil slave holders, even though the issue the South was stressing was to allow the people of the new states decide their own fate.
	www.scv674.org /SH-4.htm (5680 words)

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