USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In the fall of 1854, Senator David Atchison of Missouri led over 1, 700 men from Missouri into Kansas to vote for their pro-slavery representative. These were the infamous “border ruffians, ” who threatened to shoot, burn and hang those opposed to slavery.

Detailed explanation-2: -Border ruffians were proslavery raiders, crossing from the slave state of Missouri into the Kansas Territory, to help ensure Kansas entered the Union as a slave state. They were a key part of the violent period called Bleeding Kansas, that peaked from 1854 to 1858.

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: -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-5: -Not only did they illegally cast their own ballots but these border ruffians also stuffed the ballot box with hundreds of fictious ballots. Consequently, a high majority of pro-slavery men were voted into the territorial legislature.