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How did anti-slavery groups respond to the attack on Lawrence Kansas by border ruffians?
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john brown executed five proslavery settlers 20 miles south of lawrence
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What was in effect of the events in “bleeding Kansas?
Tensions and violence over slavery spread outside Kansas
Proslavery group battled antislavery people in kansas?
Border Ruffians
How did anitlsavery groups respond to the attack on Lawrence kansas by border ruffians?
john brown executed five proslavery settlers 20 miles south of lawrence
What was the sack of Lawrence?
In May 1856 a proslavery grand jury in Kansas charged antislavery leaders of treason, about eight hundred men rode to Lawrence,Kansas to arrest the antislavery leaders but they had fled. The proslavery men were so furious by the fleeing of the antislavery leaders that they looted and set fire to buildings, destroyed presses that were used to print antislavery newspapers, and even killed one man.
How did John Brown retaliate when Border Ruffians raided the antislavery town of Lawrence Kansas by pillaging homes burning down buildings and destroying the local newspaper?
John Brown and his sons executed five pro-slavery settlers in the middle of the night. This action sets off the events that led to Bleeding Kansas. After the massacregovernment officials noted that popular sovereignty to decide if a territory would be free or slave was not working.
How did John Brown retaliate when Border Ruffians raided the antislavery town of Lawrence Kansas by pillaging homes burning down buildings and destroying the local newspapers?
John Brown and his sons executed five pro-slavery settlers in the middle of the night. This action sets off the events that led to Bleeding Kansas. After the massacregovernment officials noted that popular sovereignty to decide if a territory would be free or slave was not working.
Anger over the passage of the Kansas Nebraska act of 1854 led to?
a violent clash between proslavery and antislavery forces
What does the term Bleeding Kansas describe?
the fighting between proslavery and antislavery groups in Kansasthe violent clashes between pro slavery and antislavery groups in the Kansas territory.
Border ruffians who disrupted Kansas before its statehood were from?
Western Missouri
How did antislavery and pro-slavery groups respond to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Abolitionist settlers, known as "jayhawkers'' moved from the East with express purpose of making Kansas a free state. A clash between the opposing sides was inevitable.
How did the kansas-nebraska act lead to growing hostility between pro-slavery and antislavery supports?
The Kansas Nebraska Act was an attempt by Stephen Douglass to develope the Nebraska territories so that he could run the transcontinental railroad through there. He proposed to break the territory up into Kansas and Nebraska and allow the issue of slavery to be settled by popular soveringty. The first issue with this is the fact that Kansas is north of the 36"30' line set by the Thomas Proviso and ther Missuri Compromis of 1820. Since the future of slavery in Kansas would be decide by popular vote and antislavery settlers out numbered proslavery settlers, each side tried to infulence the vote. Senator David Atchison of MS lead a group of people known as the Border ruffians into Kansas to illegally vote proslavery. The North also tried a similar stratagy but with limited success (New England Emigrant Aid company). The Porslavery legislature was voted into power and they drafted up the Lecompton constatution. The antislavery settlers, out raged by the illeagal voting setup an antislavery legislature in Lawrence. Soon the Proslavery intrest marched on Lawrence killing about 200 people and dissolving that legislature. This was the basiclly the first battle of the civil war.
How did the Kansas-Nebraska act lead to hostility between pro-slavery and antislavery supporters?
The Kansas Nebraska Act was an attempt by Stephen Douglass to develope the Nebraska territories so that he could run the transcontinental railroad through there. He proposed to break the territory up into Kansas and Nebraska and allow the issue of slavery to be settled by popular soveringty. The first issue with this is the fact that Kansas is north of the 36"30' line set by the Thomas Proviso and ther Missuri Compromis of 1820. Since the future of slavery in Kansas would be decide by popular vote and antislavery settlers out numbered proslavery settlers, each side tried to infulence the vote. Senator David Atchison of MS lead a group of people known as the Border ruffians into Kansas to illegally vote proslavery. The North also tried a similar stratagy but with limited success (New England Emigrant Aid company). The Porslavery legislature was voted into power and they drafted up the Lecompton constatution. The antislavery settlers, out raged by the illeagal voting setup an antislavery legislature in Lawrence. Soon the Proslavery intrest marched on Lawrence killing about 200 people and dissolving that legislature. This was the basiclly the first battle of the civil war.
