SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
BLOODY KANSAS
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He was an abolitionist and jayhawker, and was willing to use violence to bring an end to slavery.
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He was a Southern sympathizer that believed attacking and burning down antislavery owned buildings in Lawrence would help the proslavery cause.
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He was a free stater from Massachusetts that brought other free state settlers to Kansas.
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He was a bushwhacker from Missouri that believed the only way to bring slavery to Kansas was through raiding into Kansas.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Jones was born around 1820 in the southern state of Virginia. He moved west with his family, settling in Westport, Missouri, in 1854. Kansas Territory had just opened, and popular sovereignty allowed voters to determine whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Jones supported the proslavery cause.
Detailed explanation-2: -During the first election in Kansas Territory, Jones led a group of proslavery men into Kansas to disrupt the election. They destroyed the ballot box in Bloomington, Kansas.
Detailed explanation-3: -The sacking of Lawrence occurred on May 21, 1856, when pro-slavery settlers, led by Douglas County Sheriff Samuel J. Jones, attacked and ransacked Lawrence, Kansas, a town which had been founded by anti-slavery settlers from Massachusetts who were hoping to make Kansas a free state.
Detailed explanation-4: -John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist leader. First reaching national prominence for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, he was eventually captured and executed for a failed incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry preceding the American Civil War.