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Border ruffians from Missouri had crossed over to participate in the election. It is believed that over half the votes were illegal. Although the election results were challenged, Whitfield was allowed to serve.

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To intimidate the public into voting to have Kansas admitted to the Union as a slave-state.

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What did pro-slavery groups do to influence the kansas territorial election in 1855?

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.


What happen in the Kansas in the election of 1855?

"Border Ruffians" from Missouri invaded Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.


What happen in Kansas in the election of 1855?

"Border Ruffians" from Missouri invaded Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.


What happened in kansas in the elections of 1855?

"Border Ruffians" from Missouri invaded Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.


What were the people who came from Missouri to disrupt the Kansas election to decide between free and slave called?

border ruffians


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 the free staters call the first elected government the bogus legislation?

Because border ruffians from Missouri had crossed over to participate in the election.


Who is the armed groups that cross the border to vote in another state's election?

border ruffians?


Border ruffians who disrupted Kansas before its statehood were from?

Western Missouri


who were the border fuffians?

Border Ruffians was the derogatory name for proslavery raiders from the slave state of Missouri


Where were the border ruffians from?

The Border Ruffians were pro-slavery activists who primarily came from the slave state of Missouri. They crossed the border into Kansas during the Bleeding Kansas period to influence the outcome of elections and support the expansion of slavery into the territory.