Bleeding Kansas

to the Civil War was about slavery, and the Missouri Compromise has been just one of the examples that most agreed on but really did not satisfy everyone totally which in my opinion was putting a Band-Aid on the situation to temporarily stop the bleeding. There was a lot of debates on slavery from the conservatives and the liberals and most ended with a disagreement and while some or most of the people in the north thought slavery was a sinful act, and the south used slavery for…

amendment. Stephan Douglas, an Illinois senator, was the main proponent of the creation of the railroad as he believed it would run through his state. However, for the railroad to run through Illinois, the railroad would also need to run through either Kansas or Nebraska ‒ both of which were not yet states and needed to be incorporated. However, in making them states, they would need to take a stance on slavery. . This created lots of tension and violence. The issue of statehood being…

the Civil War which were; the Nat Turner’s Revolt that happened in 1831, the Manifest Destiny that Americans believed it was what God wanted, the war between America and Mexico where Texas was annexed, and when Kansas became part of America (Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854). In addition, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was the event that made the Civil War inevitable because…

One morning, sunny day I was ready to go to Kansas City not expecting anything ever bad would happen. Everyone packed up and we headed towards Kansas City, we were going to visit my cousins. When we got there we got our stuff and unpacked upstairs in the guest rooms, my older cousin left to party the night before, but he didn’t come back. After a while of talking the kids got bored and ran up the stairs to the rooms where everyone was either playing games or on their phones texting. Then out of…

1820: Missouri Compromise When the territory that is now Missouri applied for statehood in 1819, the North was clearly against the proposition since they felt that the South already held too much power in the government. However, later on, when the District of Maine desired statehood, a compromise was made. In order to uphold the balance between free and slave states, states would be admitted in pairs with one slave state and one free state. After a massive debate, this was put into effect,…

In October of 1859, the raid at Harper’s Ferry, led by John Brown, deepened the split between the North and South due to the brutality and violence used by Brown and his men in order to fight for the equality and freedoms that slaves in America deserved. Throughout 1859 to 1863, views in the North and South started to change as Democratic Southerners viewed all northerners as being solely identified by John Brown while the North split into radical abolitionists, who began to proclaim him as a…

stronger slave law and the states of New Mexico and Utah that could be free or slave states. Next came the Kansas-Nebraska Conflict in 1854, which was a very controversial conflict. Nebraska is too northern to become a slave state, so instead the conflict shifted to Kansas giving it the nickname “bleeding Kansas.” This conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery grew to the point that Kansas was not admitted as a state until the late 1860s. All of this conflict brought about one common…

Person of the Year: John Brown, Abolitionist “I have only a short time to live, only one death to die, and I will die fighting for this cause. There will be no peace in this land until slavery is done for.” (1) John Brown, Kansas Territory, 1856. The drive, passion, empathy and controversy regarding abolishing slavery in the South is the reason why John Brown has been chosen as “Person of the Year”. John Brown, an abolitionist, is viewed as a hero by some and as a villain by others depending…

accomplish. It had gotten to the point where the territories of Kansas and of Nebraska were furious that they couldn’t make their own decisions in whether or not to allow slavery within them, that the U.S. Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act in May of 1854 (Kansas-Nebraska Act). The Pro-slavery and Anti-slavery settlers began to argue furiously and violence erupted causing the territory of Kansas to be nicknamed “Bleeding Kansas” because of this period of disturbance and it also helped…

and 1855, people who were pro-slavery from Missouri cast fraudulent ballots in Kansas elections. Nonetheless, President Pierce replaced the territorial governor after recognizing the fact that the result of the pro-slavery legislature was not up to par with the interests and values of the people. A civil war surfaced when free state settlers established their own opposing government. In a conflict called "Bleeding Kansas" nearly 200 people were killed. In 1856, Preston Brooks beat Charles…