SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
BLOODY KANSAS
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He was a Senetor from the slave state of Missouri, who encouraged proslavery Missourians to vote illegally in Kansas elections.
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He was a member of the New England Emigrant Aid Company.
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He wrote poems and songs that encouraged people to join the fight for slavery.
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He was a very religious man and an abolitionist who wrote newspaper articles that enraged proslavery people in Kansas.
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Detailed explanation-1: -David Rice Atchison was a proslavery leader from Missouri. He represented that state in the U.S. Senate from 1843 to 1855. He was involved in various aspects of the territorial conflict. He commanded several different proslavery troops and was believed to participate in the sack of Lawrence.
Detailed explanation-2: -Border ruffians Pro-and antislavery activists quickly flooded Kansas with the intention of influencing the vote on slavery. Proslavery Missourians who crossed the border to vote in Kansas became known as border ruffians.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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.