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	Bleeding Kansas
		In Kansas, people on all sides of this controversial issue flooded the territory, trying to influence the vote in their favor.
		During "Bleeding Kansas", murder, mayhem, destruction and psychological warfare became a code of conduct in Eastern Kansas and Western Missouri.
		"Bleeding Kansas" was part of the political storm that occurred throughout the United States before the Civil War.
	www.nps.gov /fosc/bleeding.htm (975 words)

	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 (anti-slavery) and pro-slavery elements that took place in Kansas–Nebraska Territory and the western frontier towns of the U.S. state of Missouri between roughly 1854 and 1858.
		The term "Bleeding Kansas" was coined by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bleeding_Kansas (964 words)

	Lecompton, Kansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lecompton was founded in 1854 and platted on a bluff on the south bank of the Kansas River.
		The Bleeding Kansas caused a rupture in the relations of the North and South.
		Kansas entered the Union on January 29, 1861, as a free state, and the Civil War began.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lecompton,_Kansas (930 words)

	Bleeding Kansas: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kansas territory was a historic, organized territory of the united states that existed from may 30, 1854 to january 29, 1861....
		Kansas, derived from the siouan word kansa meaning "people of the south wind", is a midwestern u.s....
		A few famous people involved with Bleeding Kansas are John Brown and Silas Soule[For more info, click on this link].
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bl/bleeding_kansas.htm (709 words)

	Kansas on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The region was little known, however, and subsequent explorations to include Kansas were the Lewis and Clark expedition (1803-6), the Arkansas River journey of Zebulon M. Pike in 1806, and the scientific expedition of Stephen H. Long in 1819.
		Kansas, at this time mainly a region to be crossed on the way to California and Oregon, was organized as a territory in 1854.
		As conditions improved, Kansas returned largely to its allegiance to the Republican party and gained a reputation as a conservative stronghold with a bent for moral reform, indicated in the state's strong support of prohibition; laws against the sale of liquor remained on the books in Kansas from 1880 to 1949.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/kansas_history.asp (2489 words)

	Bleeding Kansas (Site not responding. Last check: )
		With the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act on May 30, 1854, the stage was set for murderous mob rule in the territory of Kansas.
		The neighboring slave state of Missouri was a funnel into Kansas for the proslavery faction, which quickly gained the upper hand in population.
		Kansas was a powder keg that exploded into a bloody civil war, characterized by lynching, bushwhacking, and burning- a continuous stream of violence that could not be contained by federal or territorial authorities.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /secessioncrisis/bleedingkansas.html (314 words)

	Bleeding Kansas and the Missouri Border War - Timeline
		The proximity of Kansas to slave-owning Missouri and the lack of any natural border between the two regions prompted an influx of Pro-slavery individuals into the new territory when it opened up for settlement.
		The group’s views are not representative of the populace in Kansas, and the words of the Lecompton Constitution will cause additional bloodshed and compound the growing frustration leading to the Civil War.
		The Kansas legislature appoints a commission to validate claims from property holders whose property was destroyed in battles between free-state and pro-slavery advocates.
	www.legendsofamerica.com /OZ-BleedingKansasTimeline.html (2134 words)

	Bleeding Kansas
		"Bleeding Kansas" was a term used by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune...
		Bleeding Kansas had come to occupy than it did about the...
		In the consciousness of historians, Bleeding Kansas was and arguably...
	www.kansascattletowns.com /bleeding-kansas.html (220 words)

	Bleeding Kansas site photos
		Confrontation and deadly skirmishes over the issue of slavery would continue in the Kansas Territory for 5 years in an era to be forever known as “Bleeding Kansas”.
		Then, in one of the most famous events in the Bleeding Kansas era, radical abolitionist John Brown (of Harper’s Ferry fame) led a small band of followers including four of his sons, to murder five pro-slavery settlers on the night of May 24, 1856.
		Lecompton-Capital of Kansas Territory Enlarge “In 1855 the new town of Lecompton became the capital of Kansas Territory.
	www.civilwaralbum.com /misc/kansas_bld1.htm (1064 words)

	Historic Lecompton - birthplace of the civil war
		Lecompton was founded in 1854 and platted on a bluff on the south bank of the Kansas River.
		Located on the bank of the Kaw River, in between Topeka, the State capital, and Lawerence, the abloitionist headquarters during Bleeding Kansas, Lecompton was at the center of territorial and national politics during the 1850's.
		This document gave residents of Kansas Territory the right to decide for themselves the issue of slavery in Kansas, and started the controversy that would become the Civil War.
	www.lecomptonkansas.com (703 words)

	Kansas-Nebraska Act on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		By 1854 the organization of the vast Platte and Kansas river countries W of Iowa and Missouri was overdue.
		It was, however, irrevocably bound to the bitter sectional controversy over the extension of slavery into the territories and was further complicated by conflict over the location of the projected transcontinental railroad.
		The popular sovereignty provision caused both proslavery and antislavery forces to marshal strength and exert full pressure to determine the "popular" decision in Kansas in their own favor, using groups such as the Emigrant Aid Company.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/KansasN1e.asp (518 words)

	Bleeding Kansas
		In an era that would come to be known as "Bleeding Kansas," the territory would become a battleground over the slavery question.
		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.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part4/4p2952.html (1284 words)

	Abacus Recordings: Bleeding Kansas
		Formed in 2001, Bleeding Kansas have constantly been active.
		Recorded by Kurt Ballou (Converge), the title, 1859, references the themes of slavery and rebellion, a common thread found throughout the record from its titles and lyrics to its imagery and layout.
		Truly, Bleeding Kansas delivers an emotionally liberating release.
	www.abacusrecordings.com /bleedingkansas (261 words)

	Bleeding Kansas: A Narrative Guide to the Sources
		In the case of "Bleeding Kansas" it is certainly true that the victors have written the history.
		A history of the troubles in Kansas, from the passage of the organic act until the close of July, 1856 by William Phillips, Sarah Tappan Doolittle Robinson's (wife of the free soil governor) Kansas: its interior and exterior life.
		In Kansas, among free state and proslavery partisans both, Brown's involvement was an open secret, as a letter written immediately after the massacre indicates.
	www.assumption.edu /ahc/Kansas (9103 words)

	Bleeding Kansas - (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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 (anti-slavery) and pro-slavery elements that took place in Kansas–Nebraska Territory and the western frontier towns of the U.S. state of Missouri between roughly 1854 and 1856.
		Southerners were driven by the rhetoric of leaders such as David Rice Atchison, a Missouri senator, who proclaimed the Northerners to be "negro thieves" and "abolitionist tyrants." He encouraged Missourians to defend their institution "with the bayonet and with blood" and, if necessary, "to kill every God-damned abolitionist in the district."
		In 1856 the pro-slavery territorial capital was moved to Lecompton, a town only 12 miles from Lawrence, a Free State stronghold.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Bleeding_Kansas (1001 words)

	Bleeding Kansas
		The first comprehensive account of “Bleeding Kansas” in more than thirty years, her study re-examines the debate over slavery expansion to emphasize issues of popular sovereignty rather than slavery’s moral or economic dimensions.
		The free-state movement was a coalition of settlers who favored fl rights and others who wanted the territory only for whites, but all were united by the conviction that their political rights were violated by nonresident voting and by Democratic presidents’; heavy-handed administration of the territories.
		Bleeding Kansas is a gripping account of events and people—rabble-rousing Jim Lane, zealot John Brown, Sheriff Sam Jones, and others—that examines the social milieu of the settlers along with the political ideas they developed.
	www.kansaspress.ku.edu /etcble.html (619 words)

	Bleeding Kansas
		“Bleeding Kansas” was a term used by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune to describe the violent hostilities between pro and antislavery forces in the Kansas territory during the mid- and late 1850s.
		In 1857 a Kansas constitutional convention was convened, which drafted a pro-slavery document.
		Kansas entered the Union as a free state in January 1861.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h84.html (910 words)

	Kansas - USA, Business,Govt,Community,Education,Real-Estate -WorldViewer
		They are exhibits on the Bleeding kansas period and the Civil War, and Plains Indian dwellings, including a buffalo-hide tepee and a grass lodge.
		Kansas is a Midwestern state in the Central United States.
		Known as Bleeding Kansas, the state was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided.
	kansasus.com (827 words)

	Kansas Bogus Legislature - Bibliography
		Kansas City's desire to be part of the railroad boom in the 1850's.
		Bleeding Kansas was a preview of the national struggle
		The Conquest of Kansas, by Missouri and her Allies: A history of the troubles in Kansas, from the passage of the organic act until the close of July, 1856.
	www.kansasboguslegislature.org /biblio (6105 words)

	Kansas Bogus Legislature - Introduction
		The First Kansas Territorial Legislature, meeting in 1855, was called the "Bogus Legislature" by its free-state opponents.
		Much of what followed in the unhappy history of "Bleeding Kansas" was a consequence of these actions.
		On the other hand, Allen Hazzard, editor of the pro-slavery Kickapoo Kansas Pioneer, visited a session of the Legislature and thought Kansas had cause to be proud of its leaders.
	www.kansasboguslegislature.org (308 words)

	Kansas
		Kansas is a leading wheat producer, but it also is known for aircraft manufacturing, meat packing and helium production.
		In the years leading up to the Civil War, battles between pro- and anti-slavery forces prompted the nickname "Bleeding Kansas." In 1865, the Plains Indian Wars erupted between Native Americans and white settlers.
		And in 1954, the state was a key player in the battle for civil rights in the case of Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka.
	www.homesparadise.com /homes/kansas (328 words)

	Bleeding Kansas
		Known under a variety of names including Jayhawker, Redlegs, Border Ruffians and Missouri Pukes, the men who aroused the violence in Bleeding Kansas where either thugs or terrorists, whether free-soiler or pro-slavery.
		Steven Douglas wanted to ensure the railroad center for the rapidly expanding West was Chicago, in his home state of Illinois.
		Southerners were strong supporters of the Kansas-Nebraska Act as the bill was finally known, because they made the assumption that Kansas would be slave and Nebraska would be free.
	blueandgraytrail.com /event/Bleeding_Kansas (269 words)

	BLEEDING KANSAS: Decade of Conflict (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Missouri slaveholders, envisioning Kansas as an extension of their state, swarmed into the Kansas Territory and squatted on the fertile lands.
		They hoped by convincing free-soil advocates to settle in Kansas, they could wrest control of the government from the proslavers.
		The Emigrant Aid Society founded the town of Lawrence, Kansas and free-soil squatters came to Kansas in droves.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/kansas_history/77224 (486 words)

	Bleeding Kansas and the Missouri Border War - Page 2
		The First Territorial Capital at Pawnee, Kansas was only used for one session, before moving to Lecomption, Kansas when the pro-slavery advocates were in control of the state.
		Andrew H. Reeder was elected as the first territorial governor of Kansas.
		Kansas was completed of native stone at the now extinct town of
	www.legendsofamerica.com /OZ-BleedingKansas2.html (784 words)

	Digital History
		Because the Kansas-Nebraska Act stated that the future status of slavery in the territories was to be decided by popular vote, both antislavery Northerners and proslavery Southerners competed to win the region for their section.
		Since Nebraska was too far north to attract slaveowners, Kansas became the arena of sectional conflict.
		Brooks then quietly left the Senate chamber, leaving Sumner "as senseless as a corpse for several minutes, his head bleeding copiously from the frightful wounds, and the blood saturating his clothes." It took Sumner three years to recover from his injuries and return to his Senate seat.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /database/article_display.cfm?HHID=332 (939 words)

	Bleeding Kansas: An Old West Campaign in the Civil War
		On 29 January 1861 Kansas was admitted to the Union as the 34th state.
		This was one of the highest percentages among Union states, and Kansas suffered the highest mortality rate of all the states in the Civil War.
		Robinson's is The Kansas Conflict, Crawford's is Kansas in the Sixties.
	www.sjgames.com /gurps/Roleplayer/Roleplayer28/BleedingKansas.html (5013 words)

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