John Brown
Abolitionist settlers, known as "jayhawkers'' moved from the East with express purpose of making Kansas a free state. A clash between the opposing sides was inevitable.
It earned the name Bleeding Kansas
Many of them were pro slavery which was in directly opposite to Mexico's antislavery policy.
Fighting between proslavery and antislavery activists in Kansas
The massacre was led by John Brown & his four sons. There was also three other men from the Pottawatomie Rifles involved.
American party
Kansas
Kansas had to governments because the antislavery settlers refused to accept the results of the vote and held a second election.
John Brown was an anti-slavery settler who led attacks on pro-slavery settlers to Kansas
the fighting between proslavery and antislavery groups in Kansasthe violent clashes between pro slavery and antislavery groups in the Kansas territory.
Abolitionist settlers, known as "jayhawkers'' moved from the East with express purpose of making Kansas a free state. A clash between the opposing sides was inevitable.
This Act set up Kansas and Nebraska as states. Each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. People who were proslavery and antislavery moved to Kansas, but some antislavery settlers were against the Act. This began guerrilla warfare.
the fighting between proslavery and antislavery groups in Kansasthe violent clashes between pro slavery and antislavery groups in the Kansas territory.
proslavery and antislavery
Kansas
Fighting between proslavery and antislavery activists in Kansas
Fighting between proslavery and antislavery activists in Kansas