SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
BLOODY KANSAS
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Pioneers
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Buffalo Soldiers
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Free-staters
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Agriculturalist
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Detailed explanation-1: -Free-Staters was the name given to settlers in Kansas Territory during the “Bleeding Kansas” period in the 1850s who opposed the expansion of slavery. The name derives from the term “free state", that is, a U.S. state without slavery.
Detailed explanation-2: -There were, nonetheless, some slaves in most free states up to the 1840 census, and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 specifically stated that a slave did not become free by entering a free state.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1780, Pennsylvania became the first state to abolish slavery when it adopted a statute that provided for the freedom of every slave born after its enactment (once that individual reached the age of majority). Massachusetts was the first to abolish slavery outright, doing so by judicial decree in 1783.