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The Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854 put forth the way to solve any issues over slavery. It stipulated that the citizens eligible to vote could put whether to allow slavery or not allow it. In Kansas, the opposing groups on this issue resulted i conflict and bloodshed. Thus the term "bleeding Kansas" was a term used to describe this conflict.

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What happend in kansas as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Nebraska came into the Union as a Free State and Kansas as a Slave State.


What was the cause of the bleeding Kansas?

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 called for "popular sovereignty." The decision about slavery was to be made by the settlers in Kansas rather than by outsiders. The decision as to whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state would be decided by the votes of people in Kansas. Whichever side had more votes counted by officials would decide if Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Kansas became a hotbed of violence and chaos as free state and slave state forces collided.


Who created the conflict that characterized the characterized the kansas territory as bleeding kansas?

The conflict known as "Bleeding Kansas" was primarily created by the contentious debate over the expansion of slavery into the Kansas Territory following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. This act allowed settlers in those territories to decide whether to allow slavery, leading to violent clashes between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions. Key figures, such as abolitionist John Brown and pro-slavery advocates, played significant roles in escalating the violence. The struggle represented broader national tensions that ultimately contributed to the Civil War.


What effect did the bleeding Kansas crisis have on the slavery debate in the years immediately before the war?

It kept both Kansas and Nebraska out of the Union until after the Civil War.


Effects of bleeding kansas?

From 1854-1861, a variety of conflicts, referred to as 'Bleeding Kansas,' occurred in the territory (and soon-to-be state) of Kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery Americans. These conflicts had the general effect of adding to national tensions between the South and the North and may be said to have contributed to the outbreak of the American Civil War.

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What was the nickname of Kansas prior to the civil war?

I think it was called "Bleeding Kansas"


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.


What nickname was given to Kansas after Civil war broke out about slavery?

Bleeding kansas


What was Bleeding Kansas's impact on the Civil War?

They had their way with President Lincoln


What was the prairie territory where a small-scale civil war erupted in 1856?

Kansas territory


What happen as a result of the Kansas Nebraska act?

It inspired some virulent civil strife= called (Bleeding Kansas) on the .36.30 Mason Dixon line boundary between Free and Slave states- a precursor of the actual civil War.


Why why were there two constitutions Kansas?

Because of what history today calls bleeding Kansas. Kansas was separated between a pro north and a pro south government during the civil war.


What effect did the Kansas act of 1854 have on the conflict over slavery?

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 led to widespread violence in the Kansas Territory between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers, known as "Bleeding Kansas." The act allowed the settlers to decide through popular sovereignty whether Kansas would allow slavery, intensifying the sectional conflict over slavery in the lead-up to the Civil War.


How did the Kansas-Nebraska act lead to bleeding Kansas?

The Kansas-Nebraska Act also led to "Bleeding Kansas," a mini civil war that erupted in Kansas in 1856. Northerners and Southerners flooded Kansas in 1854 and 1855, determined to convert the future state to their view on slavery.


Which battle started the US Civil War?

Bleeding Kansas and the Siege of Fort Sumter.


What term described the prairie territory where a small-scale civil war?

Bleeding Kansas


How do you use Bleeding Kansas in a sentence?

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.