USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Border ruffians operated from Missouri. It was said that they voted and shot in Kansas, but slept in Missouri. They not only interfered in territorial elections, but also committed outrages on Free-State settlers and destroyed their property. This violence gave the origin of the phrase “Bleeding Kansas".

Detailed explanation-2: -Three distinct political groups occupied Kansas: pro-slavery, Free-Staters and abolitionists. Violence broke out immediately between these opposing factions and continued until 1861 when Kansas entered the Union as a free state on January 29. This era became forever known as Bleeding Kansas.

Detailed explanation-3: -These figures confirm that 1856 was the bloodiest period in Bleeding Kansas. During that year a total of thirty-eight people were killed in political strife, far above the eighteen who died during all the other years combined.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bleeding Kansas describes the period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas in 1854. In all, some 55 people were killed between 1855 and 1859.