1. Bleeding Kansas - 1854 to 1861 SUMMARY Popular Sovereignty
Abolitionist from the North and Slave sympathisers from the South came to sway Kansas’s vote
Effects / Impact
North and South
- increase in tension
- foreshadowing Civil War
SUMMARY
Bleeding Kansas
Violent confrontations in the Kansas from 1854 to 1861
Started over the debate over the legalization of slavery in the state of Kansas based on popular sovereignty
Where did they come from?
Northerners -
Southerners-
Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
Murder of 5 men from a pro-slavery settlement on Pottawatomie Creek by an anti-slavery party led by the abolitionist John Brown
Retaliation to an attack by pro-slavers on a abolitionist town in Kansas