Temperance was not an issue in bleeding Kansas. At the time, the temperance movement was still mostly concentrated in urban areas. Kansas during the period of "Bleeding Kansas" most certainly was NOT urban.
"Bleeding Kansas", as it was called by Horace Greeley of the NY Tribune, was a proxy war between Northern and Southern states focused almost entirely over the question of whether Kansas would be a "free" or "slave" state.
Bleeding Kansas
Tensions and violence over slavery spread outside Kansas
Tensions and violence over slavery spread outside Kansas
Tensions and violence over slavery spread outside Kansas
Tensions and violence over slavery spread outside Kansas
Prior to Kansas joining the Union, the Kansas Territory was a hotbed of violence and chaos between abolitionists and pro-slavery settlers. Kansas was known as Bleeding Kansas as these forces collided.
Prior to Kansas joining the Union, the Kansas Territory was a hotbed of violence and chaos between anti-slavery and pro-slavery settlers. Kansas was known as Bleeding Kansas as these forces collided over the issue of slavery in the United States. The term "Bleeding Kansas" was coined by Republican Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune.
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The term Bleeding Kansas was used to describe an internal struggle that presaged the US Civil War. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 resulted in armed violence, involving pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces, in the border war referred to as Bleeding Kansas.
Tensions and violence over slavery spread outside Kansas
Prior to Kansas joining the Union, the Kansas Territory was a hotbed of violence and chaos between anti-slavery and pro-slavery settlers. Kansas was known as Bleeding Kansas as these forces collided over the issue of slavery in the United States. The term "Bleeding Kansas" was coined by Republican Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune.
The strife in "Bleeding Kansas" was associated with a conflict between _____ and _____.