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The term "Bleeding Kansas" was coined in the pages of the New York Tribune for events before the American Civil War. The heart of the problem was whether Kansas would enter the Union as a Free State or a Slave State. It was a proxy war between Northerners and Southerners over the issue of slavery in the United States. Hostilities and violence raged between those who supported slavery and those who opposed it. By the time peace was imposed in 1859, 56 people had died. Kansas entered the Union as a Free state in January, 1861.

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Are bloody Kansas and bleeding Kansas the same thing?

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 resulted in armed conflict between pro-slavery people in Kansas and anti-slavery people there. The terms of Bleeding Kansas and Bloody Kansas in 1854 and the years prior to the US Civil War mean the same thing.


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The term Bleeding Kansas was used to describe an internal struggle that presaged the US Civil War. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 resulted in armed violence, involving pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces, in the border war referred to as Bleeding Kansas.


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Under the terms of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the voters were allowed to vote as to whether Kansas and Nebraska would enter the US as either free or slave States. There was bitter conflicts in Kansas over this issue and pro and antislavery forces fought as if in a war. The lost lives and wounded caused the term of Bloody Kansas to be used to describe what happened. Some called it Bleeding Kansas.


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