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Kansas was voting to come into the union as free or slave state. Both groups people for and against slavery flooded the territory to influence the vote. One of the men who came was John Brown with his sons into Lawrence. They murdered several proslavery people and the newspapers ran a headline calling Kansas BLOODY KANSAS.
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Anger over the passage of the Kansas Nebraska act of 1854 led to?
a violent clash between proslavery and antislavery forces
How did anti-slavery groups respond to the attack on Lawrence Kansas by border ruffians?
john brown executed five proslavery settlers 20 miles south of lawrence
What happen as a result of the Kansas Nebraska act provision for popular sovereignty?
a violent clash beetween proslavery and antislavery forces.
Five proslavery settlers are killed?
At Pottawatomie Creek in 1856, John Brown and his anti-slavery forces killed five prop-slavery settlers in Kansas. This was in retaliation for the attack on Lawrence, Kansas, where the town was sacked and burned.
What did the proslavery forces support?
Proslavery forces supported the institution of slavery, believing it was essential for their economy, social order, and way of life. They sought to protect their right to own slaves and defend the power dynamics that benefited them economically and socially.
Weak Democratic president whose manipulation by proslavery forces divided his own party?
James Buchanan
Was james lane proslavery or antislavery?
James H. Lane was a a principal leader of the anti-slavery forces.
How did proslavery forces ensure that kansas would elect a proslavery legislature?
By sending armed rebels to intimidate voters. There were actually two legislatures. only one of them pro-slavery, causing further confusion.
When did American forces fightback for the attacks on Pearl Harbor?
When did american forces fightback for the attacks on pearl harbor?
What happened as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska acts provisions for popular sovereignty?
a violent clash beetween proslavery and antislavery forces.
What name was given to the fight between proslavery and antislavery forces following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Bleeding Kansas
What was the sack of Lawrence?
In May 1856 a proslavery grand jury in Kansas charged antislavery leaders of treason, about eight hundred men rode to Lawrence,Kansas to arrest the antislavery leaders but they had fled. The proslavery men were so furious by the fleeing of the antislavery leaders that they looted and set fire to buildings, destroyed presses that were used to print antislavery newspapers, and even killed one man.
