USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bleeding Kansas, or the Kansas-Missouri Border War, was a series of violent civil confrontations between the people of Kansas and Missouri that occurred immediately after the signing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. The border war began seven years before the Civil War officially began and continued into the war.