BY: KEIARA DENMAN

 Bleeding Kansas also known as:  Bloody Kansas  Border War  A proxy war between Northerners and Southerners Over the issue of Slavery in the United State.  Bleeding Kansas was a term coined by Horace Greely of New York Tribune.  It also presaged the American Civil War.

 Anti-Slavery ( ABOLITIONISTS )  Pro-Slavery ( BORDER RUFFIAN ELEMENTS )  Free Staters  The question they all wanted to know was whether Kansas would enter the Union as a Free State or Slave State.  Violence between the groups continued until Kansas entered the union as a free state in January 29, 1861.

 Kansas Territory  Western Frontier towns of the U.S State of Missouri

 Calm to the nation  Blacks and abolitionists opposed the compromise, but majority of Americans embraced it  Would be a workable solution to the slavery question  Also saved union from terrible split

 It established boundaries of Nebraska and Kansas  Used popular Sovereignty

 Massacre in May 1856 at Pottawtomie Creek where John Brown and His sons killed five pro-slavery advocates.  Summer of pro-slavery settlers from South Carolina arrived in Bourbon County  They where apart of the Southern Emigrant Aid society & dark Lantern Societies  Which terrorized free state settlers and attempted drive them from Kansas

 “Old Fort” - known as Fort Scott Sold to public auction from fort became the nucleus of a rapidly growing town. Two of the buildings became hotels  Fort Scott  “Free State Hotel”  across from the street was (parade ground) Was the western - “Pro Slavery Hotel”

 Intensified in southeast Kansas  James Montgomery became leader of free state forces and involved in several violent incidents.  In April : - Montgomery and his men fought U.S troops stationed at Fort Scott in Battle of Paint Creek. ( one soldier was killed in encounter.)  In May:  they repelled Pro-Slavery forces from Linn County (11 free Staters were pulled out of their homes and taken to a ravine and shot down. (incident known as “ Marais Des Cygnes Massacre” rumored to have been plotted in the Western Hotel.)

 In June:  they tried to burn down the Hotel shots were fired in hotel and homes around, but the hotel was saved.  On the 15, the Governor held a meeting in the Western Hotel in order to settle Political unrest, the meeting progressed into a riot. (peace and tranquility reigned for a brief 5 month period.)  In December:  Montgomery and his followers struck again and then Montgomery rescued Benjamin Rice (he was arrested for murder and imprisoned in Fort Scott Hotel.)  Montgomery felt he was jailed illegally and went to free him.

 Before they entered the union:  Deputy Marshal John Little (Pro-Slavery Advocate) fired shots into ranks of Free Staters. When he looked out the window to see what he had done Little had been shot and killed by a Free-Stater.  Littles Fiance’, Gene Campbell wrote a letter to Montgomery on how she felt about him.  In which not to much later they became a Free State!

 Main Source from:   Helping sources  Wikipedia  Review book!