SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
BLOODY KANSAS
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He was a bushwhacker and border ruffian, and he believed that violence was the only way.
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He was a free-stater who organized 400 other free-state people to come to Kansas and help make it free.
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He was neutral on the issue of slavery.
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He was an abolitionist and jayhawker, and was willing to use violence.
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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: -Lane arrived in Washington D.C. as the Civil War erupted. He used his military experience to organize the Frontier Guard to protect the president and the White House. Lane also founded three Kansas military units together called Lane’s Brigade. These units fought against Confederates along the Kansas-Missouri border.