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- WHY is this significant
- WHERE and WHEN did this take place
- KANSAS
- WHO was involved
- This event is historically significant now that the war between both abolitionist and pro slavery citizens in a way shaped America's politics and played a role in why the Civil War took place.
- WHAT
- Will Kansas be a free state or not ??
- Took place in Kansas territory between the years 1854 and 1859
- How
- John Brown, Pro slavery, Free staters, and abolitionist (John brown was the main abolitionist in bleeding Kansas but would later be tried for murder, slave insurrection and treason against the state causing him to be executed).
- Bleeding Kansas
- Following the formation of the new territory of Kansas in 1854, there were periodic outbreaks of brutal guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions. This would cause about 55 deaths
- Kansas and Nebraska were established as territories under the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The statute gave the citizens of each region the option of allowing or prohibiting slavery.The Republican Party was founded in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which became the nation's premier antislavery political party. This connects to Bleeding Kansas because this act lead to the violent wars.
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