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How did the Kansas-Nevraska Act lead to growing hospitality between pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters?
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Why did proslavery and antislavery. Supporters want to claim land in Kansas?
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Anger over the passage of the Kansas Nebraska act of 1854 led to?
a violent clash between proslavery and antislavery forces
Many proslavery supporters rushed into kansas from what state?
Missouri
Who led the group of antislavery supporters who were involved in the Pottawatamie Massacre in Kansas?
John Brown
What term names proslavery supporters from Missouri who traveled in armed groups and crossed into Kansas to vote in the 1855 election?
border ruffians
What term names proslavery supporters from Missouri who traveled in armed groups crossed into Kansas to vote in the 1855 election?
border ruffians
Which US Senator was attacked by Congressman Preston Brooks after giving a speech that denounced the acts of proslavery forces in Kansas and their supporters in Congress?
Charles sumner
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.
What Similar methods did antislavery reformers and supporters of women's rights use to share their message?
They distributed pamphlets and newspapers and sent out organizers and lecturers.
How did the kansas nebraska act lead to growing hostility between pro slavery and antislavery supporters?
like dis bro "WELL F DA SOUTH"
What was John brown immediate plan?
John Brown's immediate plan was to " strike terror in the hearts of the proslavery people." Then eventually he, his four sons, and two other men went to the Pottawatomie Creek, where they seized and killed 5 supporters of slavery.
What happened on May 22 1856?
800 slavery supporters attacked the town of Lawrence in Kansas, a stronghold of antislavery settlers. The attackers burned the Free State Hotel and destroyed two newspaper offices and many homes. Soon after, antislavery forces retaliated. John Brown,a fervent abolitionist, believed God chose hom to end slavery. The attck on Lawrence enraged Brown. he vowed to "Strike terror in the hearts of the pro-slavery people." One night Brown led a a group along Pottawatomie Creek where he seized and killed five supporters of slavery.
