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Putting the slavery issue to a local vote. It was a magnet for terrorists from both sides to try to intimidate the voters.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act gave voters in those territories to either have their states be free of slavery or allow it. Kansas had a long border with slave state Missouri. There were strong feelings on each side of the slavery issue. Lack of law enforcement and high tensions among the people cause terrible violence to occur.
It established if the states would come into the union free or slave states through voters voting on the issue. The whole problem with it was people crossed state lines for or against slavery to swing the votes. John Brown and his sons went into Lawrence, Kansas and murdered people who were for slavery. A newspaper published a headline calling it "Bloody Kansas ".
A ballot over slavery in the new state of Kansas. This was meant to be a peaceful way of settling the issue, but it had the opposite effect. Voters were intimidated by gangs from both sides, and it was not clear for some time that the people of Kansas were voting for free soil.
Slavery was an issue that contributed to the event of Bleeding Kansas. Bleeding Kansas was also known as the Bloody Kansas war.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty. The people who lived in these territories would be able to vote on whether slavery would be allowed there. What effect did this have on Kansas?
Violence erupted in Kansas due to the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Pro-slavery people and anti-slavery people became savage with each other over the issue of slavery. The result of the severe violence is termed "Bleeding Kansas".
Slavery was an issue that contributed to the event of Bleeding Kansas. Bleeding Kansas was also known as the Bloody Kansas war.
Pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces fought for control of the territory because it had not yet been decided if Kansas would become a free or slave state.
That was before the war - and it was one of the things that led to war. When the territory of Kansas was admitted to the Union, the slavery issue was put to a local vote. This led to rival gangs invading the state and intimidating the voters. It was a foretaste of what was to come.
Stephen Douglas, who tried to put the slavery issue to the local vote in each new state. It just led to intimidation of voters, and proved that the slavery question would never be settled by peaceful debate.
By local vote (or 'Popular Sovereignty') This sounded like a reasonable and peaceful solution, but it led to bloodshed, with terrorists intimidating the voters, and it generally raised the heat of the whole slavery debate.