civil war in kansas

[gettysburg man]

i don't remember the year, but in the 1850's there was a mini civil war in kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery people.there were seperate armies. over 200 men died in kansas during that mini civil war. that's how it got the nick-name ''bleeding kansas'' and that was a leading cause for the civil war.

[Electron]

It took place between 1854-1858. It was basically between Kansas and Missouri over becoming admitted to the Union as a free or slave state following the passing of the Kansas-Nebraska act (May 30, 1854) thus nullifying the Missouri Compromise. President Pierce, a pro-slavery president, sent in Federal troops to disperse the newly elected anti-slavery legislature. This led to a second vote. This time pro-slavery supporters won and were charged with election fraud. Congress did not recognize the pro-slavery constitution, and denied Kansas' statehood. While all this was going on, people (supporters for both sides) were streaming into Kansas to try to sway the vote (thus the charges of election fraud). Pro-slavery supporters besieged the free-state town of Lawrence in December, 1855. Douglas County Sheriff Samuel Jones was shot while he attempted to arrest free-state settlers on April 23, 1856 and on May 11, Sheriff Jones was run out of town. Sheriff Jones amassed a "posse" to destroy the presses, disarm the citizens and destroy the hotel "fortress." The attack on the town took place on May 21, 1856. A brutal beating of Senator Charles Sumner in the Senate Chambers on May 22 further inspired John Brown to take action. Abolitionist John Brown led the "Pottawatome Massacre" on May 24-25, 1856 in retaliation for the attack on Lawrence. He also took 23 pro-slavery soldiers prisoner on June 2, 1856, called "The Battle of Black Jack." John Brown made his name known during the failed raid at Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859. So the border war could be called a proxy war that preceeded the American Civil War, aka the War of Northern Aggression, aka the War Between The States.

[Santiago]

don't remember the year, but in the 1850's there was a mini civil war in kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery people.there were seperate armies.

[Electron]

see the post below. That explains pretty much briefs how it was.