KS-NE & Bleeding KS

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Repealing The Missouri Compromise

Kansas And Nebraska

First Territorial LegislatureElection

Bleeding Kansas

Aftermath

The KS-NE act created the two territories known as Kansas and Nebraska. They were each given choice to decide if they wanted to permit slavery upon joining the Union. This idea is known as popular sovereignty. It was a bill the was proposed to organize the LouisianaPurchase.

The KS-NE act repealed the Missouri Compromise. The Missouri Compromise made Missouri a slave state while Maine became a free state. 

Nebraska was so far to the North that it guaranteedthat it would become a free state. On the other hand, Kansas border Missouri, a slave state, so a bunch of pro-slavery Missourians marched into Kansas to vote illegally in the first territorial election.(November 1854) Also, a bunch of abolitionists formed the Emigrant Aid Company, which had sent many anti-slavery settlers to ensure that Kansas would become a free state.

March 1855, an election took place for the first territorial legislature. Thousands of 'border ruffians' showed up in Kansas again and they were heavily armed. They illegally voted and were very intimidating so that they could ensure that Kansas would have a pro-slavery legislature. Anti-slavery settlers did notlike this so they set up they created their own group known as 'jayhawkers'. They armed themselves so they could fight with the pro-slavery settlers.

Bleeding Kansas is a small war between the pro-s and the anti-s. Violence between the pro and antis in the late 1855. The pro-slavery group stormed the stronghold of Lawrence on May 21st, 1856 by destroying printing presses, looting stores and homes, and committingarson. This was known as the 'Sack of Lawrence'. John Brown, an abolitionist, marched through PottawatomieValley and dragged 5 men from their homes and brutally murdered them. He went with his 4 sons and three other men. This occured on May 24th. There were many more little squabbles between the two groups.

The Wyandotte Constitutionmade Kansas enter as a free state. Admission of Kansas entering passed the house but, Southern Senators delayed the voting. On January 29th, 1861 Kansas entered as a free state after getting approved. Bleeding Kansas would eventually lead into the Civil War (1861-1865)