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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 called for "popular sovereignty." The decision about slavery was to be made by the settlers in Kansas rather than by outsiders. The decision as to whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state would be decided by the votes of people in Kansas. Whichever side had more votes counted by officials would decide if Kansas would become a free state or a slave state.
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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.
What battle did they struggle between proslavery and antislavery groups?
"Bleeding Kansas"
What does the bleeding Kansas describe?
the fighting between proslavery and antislavery groups in Kansasthe violent clashes between pro slavery and antislavery groups in the Kansas territory.
What two groups that the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act led to an immediate struggle between?
It was a struggle between the ANTISLAVERY and the PROSLAVERY
What was the nickname for the Western territory that was the scene of violence between proslavery and antislavery groups?
The nickname was the BleedingKansas
Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas?
choice 1. proslavery and antislavery groups
Why did antislavery and pro-slavery groups encourage people t o move to kansas?
Both antislavery and pro-slavery groups encouraged people to move to Kansas in order to establish majority control and influence the outcome of the potential state's decision on slavery. This was a strategy to sway the political future of the territory and determine whether it would enter the Union as a free state or a slave state.
What phrase was used to describe clashes between pro-slavery and antislavery groups?
Bleeding Kansas
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
Why did proslavery forces attacks Lawrence?
Kansas was voting to come into the union as free or slave state. Both groups people for and against slavery flooded the territory to influence the vote. One of the men who came was John Brown with his sons into Lawrence. They murdered several proslavery people and the newspapers ran a headline calling Kansas BLOODY KANSAS.
How did anti-slavery groups respond to the attack on Lawrence Kansas by border ruffians?
john brown executed five proslavery settlers 20 miles south of lawrence
