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Bleeding Kansas
Civil War Encyclopedia >> Major Event
| April 26, 1854 | Emory Washburn signs legislation officially recognizing the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company. It founded by Eli Thayer, Alexander H. Bullock and Edward Everett Hale. | |
| May 30, 1854 | President Franklin Pierce signs the Kansas-Nebraska Act into law. | Kansas |
| Kansas becomes a state | ||
| Causes of the Civil War | ||
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | ||
| Franklin Pierce | ||
| July 28, 1854 | First settlers arrive in Kansas under the New England Emigrant Society charter. They set up tents on the Kansas River, west of its confluence with the Missouri. | |
| August 1, 1854 | City of Lawrence, Kansas is founded | Kansas |
| November 21, 1855 December 4, 1855 |
Wakarusa War between the Freestaters in Lawrence and proslavery forces surrounding the town | |
| May 19, 1856 | Charles Sumner begins his "Crime against Kansas" speech, which concludes tomorrow | Kansas |
| Sumner and Brooks | ||
| Preston S. Brooks | ||
| Charles Sumner | ||
| Kansas becomes a state | ||
| May 21, 1856 | Samuel Jones, a pro-slavery sheriff leads a band of border ruffians on a raid against Lawrence, Kansas | Kansas |
| May 24, 1856 May 25, 1856 |
Pottawatomie Massacre - John Brown kills five pro-slavers along this Kansas Creek | Kansas |
| John Brown | ||
| July 4, 1856 | Under direct orders from President Franklin Pierce, Edwin Vose Sumner leads 200 infantrymen into Topeka, Kansas, unlimbers his artillery and informs the freestaters they may not hold a convention. | Kansas |
| Edwin Vose Sumner | ||
| Franklin Pierce | ||
| August 30, 1856 | Battle at Osawatomie - 12 Free-staters under Capt. John Brown are attacked by 250 pro-slavery men | |
| John Brown | ||
| July 5, 1859 July 29, 1859 |
The 4th Constitutional Convention, Wyandotte, Kansas | Kansas |
| Kansas becomes a state | ||
| January 29, 1861 | Kansas admitted to the Union | Kansas |
| Kansas becomes a state |
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. However, the underlying cause of the violence was the brewing sectional conflict over the abolition of slavery.
Shortly after the Compromise of 1850 pressure renewed on Congress to add new states. 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.
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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. However, the underlying cause of the violence was the brewing sectional conflict over the abolition of slavery.
Shortly after the Compromise of 1850 pressure renewed on Congress to add new states. 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.
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Compromise of 1850
Steven Douglas
Civil War Encyclopedia >> Major Event
Bleeding Kansas was last changed on - November 12, 2006
Bleeding Kansas was added in 2005
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