Bleeding Kansas

Conflicts brought about war in 1861 when hostile rebels attacked the Union military base Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Differences in beliefs between the Northern and Southern states climaxed with the idea of slavery. The South who currently practiced slavery and the North who did not had been arguing for decades and in 1860 the debate had reached a stalemate. The South believed that the issue of slavery, among other issues, should be left up to the individual state to decide. South Carolina…

Since the Framers began writing the Constitution in 1787 to govern our great nation, Americans had been avoiding an ugly truth. Slavery had been in American since the colonization of Jamestown in 1619 because indentured servants had become too expensive to bring over from England to do their work. The colonists’ only option for survival was to bring slaves over to help with the hard labor no one else wanted to do or could do. When the slaves came, they gave the colonists a chance at living. They…

The American Civil War was inevitable; it could have happened earlier or later than it did, but there was no way to avoid this bloody war. Slavery was a controversial topic in the United States and was bound to be the catalyst of a civil war. The Civil War was a result of failures of leadership, the differing societies of the North and the South, and extremism. The citizens from both of these regions of the United States were very close-minded and had their minds made up about where they…

debating it was made into a law. The act separated Nebraska and Kansas. This act was to reverse the Missouri compromise of 1820 which banned slavery to enter the north latitude of 36-30. After the act was passed, people who supported slavery and those who were against slavery moved to Kansas to influence of the result of the first election. But those who favored slaver ended up being charged of fraud. As more people came in to Kansas the violence got worsen. In 1856 anabolitionist name john…

Continued westward expansion throughout the colonization of America was a necessary growth in order to deal with many increasing tensions and population densities. At the time of the Royal Proclamation line in 1793, Americans had already begun traveling and settling in new areas past the Appalachian mountain range. Farmers, squatter, and religious reformers were some of the masses of people who made the trip out west in hopes of finding land to provide for their kids. Relief from the rule of the…

“John Brown’s body lies a mould’ring in the grave, his soul goes marching on.” This is what Thomas Brigham Bishop said about John Brown after he was hanged for his abolitionist actions. John Brown was an Militant extremists abolitionist who is famous for his actions before the Civil War and to some, being the one who started and caused the war. Abolitionist in the north think as him as a godlike figure, while people in the south think as him as an awful person. He helped with the Underground…

At the foundations of the United States, significant tensions resided as to the direction of the new found country. Some proponents advocated for the expansion of federal powers while opponents argued that state rights were essential to the direction of the Union. As the nation aged these tensions would only begin to grow into sectionalism. The states of the south valued states rights while many in the north valued federalism. Additionally, the South would become a strong proponent of slavery…

While many cultural movements influenced the people of the nation, such as the rise of women’s rights, enlightenment and industrialization, abolition had one of the largest cultural and societal influences on the populous of America. In 1829, a freed slave named David Walker published An Appeal to Colored Citizens of the World, in which he tried to encourage slaves to rise up against their masters, causing conflicts among the fellow abolitionists, as it was too drastic and extreme for them to…

also stated these events led to Robinson leaving Quigley after his freshman year was over. After leaving Quigley, Robinson attended a junior college where he studied X-ray technology, but he did not end up graduating. Consequently, Robinson moves to Kansas City where he marries his wife Nancy Lynch and subsequently begins a criminal record. Before John Robinson began killing he encountered several minor misdemeanors in comparison to his many murders. His first misdemeanor came “after he…

Supreme Court and it was heard in 1855 and it was heard again in 1856. The year 1856 was hard because slavery was now being talked about more and a lot of events were occurring. An example of this would be the conflict that occurred in Kansas called the “Bleeding Kansas” and the day after this an abolitionist Senator was beaten half to death by a Southern Senator. Furthermore two days after all of this happened John Brown killed five slave owners. With all of this going on, plus a family…