Transcript BLEEDING KANSAS

BY: KEIARA DENMAN
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Bleeding Kansas also known as:
 Bloody Kansas
 Border War
 A proxy war between Northerners and Southerners
Over the issue of Slavery in the United State.
 Bleeding Kansas was a term coined by Horace Greely
of New York Tribune.
 It also presaged the American Civil War.
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Anti-Slavery (ABOLITIONISTS)
Pro-Slavery (BORDER RUFFIAN ELEMENTS)
 Free Staters
 The question they all wanted to know was whether
Kansas would enter the Union as a Free State or Slave
State.
 Violence between the groups
continued until
Kansas entered the union as a free
state in January 29, 1861.
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Kansas Territory
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Western Frontier towns of the U.S State of Missouri
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Calm to the nation
Blacks and abolitionists opposed the compromise, but
majority of Americans embraced it
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Would be a workable solution to the slavery question
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Also saved union from terrible split
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It established boundaries of Nebraska and Kansas
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Used popular Sovereignty
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Massacre in May 1856 at Pottawtomie Creek where
John Brown and His sons killed five pro-slavery
advocates.
Summer of 1856 30 pro-slavery settlers from South
Carolina arrived in Bourbon County
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They where apart of the Southern Emigrant Aid
society & dark Lantern Societies
Which terrorized free state settlers and attempted
drive them from Kansas
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“Old Fort”
- known as Fort Scott
• Sold to public auction from fort became the nucleus
of a rapidly growing town.
• Two of the buildings became hotels
 Fort Scott
 “Free State Hotel”
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across from the street was (parade ground)
Was the western
- “Pro Slavery Hotel”
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Intensified in southeast Kansas
James Montgomery became leader of free state forces
and involved in several violent incidents.
In April :
- Montgomery and his men fought U.S troops
stationed at Fort Scott in Battle of Paint Creek. ( one
soldier was killed in encounter.)
In May:
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they repelled Pro-Slavery forces from Linn County
(11 free Staters were pulled out of their homes and
taken to a ravine and shot down. (incident known as
“Marais Des Cygnes Massacre” rumored to have been
plotted in the Western Hotel.)
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In June:
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they tried to burn down the Hotel shots were fired in hotel and
homes around, but the hotel was saved.
On the 15, the Governor held a meeting in the Western Hotel in
order to settle Political unrest, the meeting progressed into a
riot. (peace and tranquility reigned for a brief 5 month period.)
In December:
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Montgomery and his followers struck again and then
Montgomery rescued Benjamin Rice (he was arrested for
murder and imprisoned in Fort Scott Hotel.)
Montgomery felt he was jailed illegally and went to free him.
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Before they entered the union:
Deputy Marshal John Little (Pro-Slavery Advocate)
fired shots into ranks of Free Staters. When he looked
out the window to see what he had done Little had
been shot and killed by a Free-Stater.
Littles Fiance’, Gene Campbell wrote a letter to
Montgomery on how she felt about him.
In which not to much later they became a Free State!
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Main Source from:
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http://thomaslegion.net/bleedingkansas.html
Helping sources
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Wikipedia
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