Bleeding Kansas
violent political confrontations in the United States centered around slavery / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bleeding Kansas was a border war on the Kansas-Missouri border. It started with the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854. It continued into the American Civil War (1854–1861).[2] It was an ugly war between groups of people who had strong beliefs about slavery.[3] The term was first coined by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune.[4] He used it to describe the violence happening in the Kansas territory during the mid to late 1850s.[4] Three different groups were fighting for power in Kansas at the time. These were those who were pro-slavery, abolitionists and free-staters.[2] Bleeding Kansas, fought over the issue of slavery, was a precursor of events to come in the American Civil War.
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Bleeding Kansas | |||||||
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Part of the prelude to the American Civil War | |||||||
1856 map showing slave states (gray), free states (pink), and territories (green) in the United States, with the Kansas Territory in center (white) | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Anti-slavery settlers (Free-Staters) | Pro-slavery settlers (Border Ruffians) | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Disputed - 100+[1] | 80 or fewer; 20–30 killed[1] |
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