SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
BLOODY KANSAS
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He was a free-stater from Massachusetts who settled in KS. He would become the first governor of the state.
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He was a very religious man and an abolitionist who wrote newspaper articles.
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He was an abolitionist and jayhawker, and was willing to use violence.
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He was a border ruffian who believed that the proslavery people from Missouri should vote illegally in Kansas elections.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Slavery existed in Kansas Territory, but on a much smaller scale than in the South. Most slaveholders owned only one or two slaves. Many slaves were women and children who performed domestic work rather than farm labor.
Detailed explanation-2: -16, 1854. On this day in 1854, Abraham Lincoln, as a congressional candidate from Illinois, spoke out against the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which Congress had passed five months earlier. In his speech, the future president outlined his views on slavery, which he called “immoral.”
Detailed explanation-3: -Kansas Entered the Union as a Free State. Kansas entered the union as a “free state, ” because of the Kansas-Nebraska Act that allowed the residents to decide if their state would allow slavery.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: The main reason free soilers came to Kansas in the 1800’s was to oppose Kansas self-determining as a slave state. The free-soilers were part of a one-issue abolitionist party that sought to stop the spread of slavery in the American West.