USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Bleeding Kansas, (1854–59), small civil war in the United States, fought between proslavery and antislavery advocates for control of the new territory of Kansas under the doctrine of popular sovereignty.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bleeding Kansas was a mini civil war between pro-and anti-slavery forces that occurred in Kansas from 1856 to 1865. Following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, thousands of Northerners and Southerners came to the newly created Kansas Territory.

Detailed explanation-3: -Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas, or the Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859.

Detailed explanation-4: -Northerners and other anti-slavery settlers refused to accept this government and set up their own. Some of these Free Staters, known as “jayhawkers, ” armed themselves in preparation for clashes with pro-slavery forces.

Detailed explanation-5: -Although Kansas has no Civil War commission, numerous resources and events will observe this sesquicentennial from 2011 to 2015. Kansas committed regiments and soldiers to the Union cause. The Civil War touched the state in many ways including Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence in 1863 and the Battle of Mine Creek in 1864.