USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Many of the former border ruffians became pro-Confederate guerrillas, or bushwhackers. They operated in western Missouri, sometimes raiding into Kansas, and Union forces campaigned to suppress them.

Detailed explanation-2: -Proslavery Missourians who crossed the border to vote in Kansas became known as border ruffians. Border ruffians helped to secure a proslavery legislature in Kansas, which drafted a proslavery constitution known as the Lecompton Constitution.

Detailed explanation-3: -Border Ruffians Thousands of Missouri residents crossed over the border into Kansas in 1855 to vote in the election to establish a territorial legislature. The opposition called these southerners Border Ruffians because they became violent in their support of slavery.

Detailed explanation-4: -Those proslavery Missourians who voted and participated in Kansas’s territorial politics legally, extralegally, illegally, and often with threats and violence were the first to be called “border ruffians.”

Detailed explanation-5: -The pro-slavery forces brought in residents of nearby Missouri to illegally vote to sway Kansas politics. These illegal voters were known as “border ruffians.” The illegal activity did not stop with politics; the border ruffians engaged in intimidation and violence against anti-slavery settlers.