Bleeding Kansas was a curtain-raiser for the Civil War, a small, local conflict that showed the dangerous enmity between the two sides. A well-meaning politician, Stephen Douglas, had suggested that the people of each new state ought to be allowed to vote on whether it would be slave or free (Popular Sovereignty'). By allowing one state at a time to vote, it attracted every bully-boy from both sides into that one thinly-populated area, to intimidate voters and try to upset the ballot. It convinced many people that the slavery debate would never be settled, except through violence.
Bleeding Sumner was a scandal in Congress, when a Southern politician Preston Brooks physically attacked Northern abolitionist Charles Sumner for slandering the Southern cause. This also demonstrated the violent feelings generated by the slavery debate, making a peaceful outcome seem more unlikely than ever.
It allowed Kansas to enter the USA as free soil - after every bully-boy in America had descended on that thinly-populated state, to try and interrupt the voting. ("Bleeding Kansas")
Because of what history today calls bleeding Kansas. Kansas was separated between a pro north and a pro south government during the civil war.
his views were Criticizing and slavery and personally insulted Andrew Pickens Butlers
the north and south became more divided over the issue of slavery
Ashleigh Sumner was born in 1979, in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
They were disappointed that the experiment with putting slavery to the vote seemed to be causing violence, and they blamed the South for sending ruffians into Kansas to intimidate the voters. The South, of course, blamed the North for doing the same.
the north and south became more divided over the issue of slavery
The increasing political conflict between North and South.Congressman Preston Brooks from South Carolina attacked Senator Charles Sumner with his walking cane, at Sumner's desk in the Senate because of a speech Sumner made that blamed Southerners for the pro slavery violence in Kansas. Sumner was beaten and defaced so badly that he did not return back to Senate for three years. When news spread of this event, Southerners supplied Brooks with many replacement walking canes.
Sumner Lyon was born on June 18, 1909, in Bowbells, North Dakota, USA.
From 1854-1861, a variety of conflicts, referred to as 'Bleeding Kansas,' occurred in the territory (and soon-to-be state) of Kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery Americans. These conflicts had the general effect of adding to national tensions between the South and the North and may be said to have contributed to the outbreak of the American Civil War.
On March 19,1856 Republican Senator Charles Sumner started a violent speech on the topic "The crime against Kansas". He attacked the pro-slavery establishment and parliamentary representatives in general but he addressed himself particularly against the old Senator Andrew Butler of South Carolina, who, some days before energetically sustained the Kansas had to be admitted in the Union as a slave State. Indeed, Sumner's attitude and verbal attack against Butler were really excessive and, when the speech was over, the nephew of Butler, Honorable Preston Books, seized by anger approached Sumner and hit him five or six time on the head with his walking stick, knocking him down bleeding and unconscious. The happening contributed to worsen further on the tensions and enlarge the furrow already in being between North and South
Nebraska is obviously due north of Kansas