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Henry BeecherJohn BrownStephen Douglas was a fervent abolitionist who attacked proslavery families in Kansas.
This happened because proslavery Missourians crossed over into Kansas to vote illegally
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Kansas is a red state, typically, but this election it seems like it might go blue.
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Prior to the territorial election of 1855, Border Ruffians from Missouri crossed into Kansas and voted a pro-slavery legislature into power. They intended to make Kansas a slave state by whatever means available.
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After the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 allowing the future state to choose whether to be a slave or state, many proslavery settlers came into the Kansas territory. Many of these settlers rushed over the border with Missouri, already a slave state, to influence the decision in Kansas.
In the first election in Kansas, a large number of people from Missouri rode across the state line and cast votes in Kansas. People not eligible to vote, voted in the election.
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.
Henry BeecherJohn BrownStephen Douglas was a fervent abolitionist who attacked proslavery families in Kansas.
proslavery and antislavery
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This happened because proslavery Missourians crossed over into Kansas to vote illegally
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