SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
TENSION OVER SLAVERY IN THE 1850S
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proslavery Missourians who crossed the border to vote in Kansas
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antislavery Missourians who crossed the border to vote in Kansas
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a group of radical abolitionists led by John Brown who killed 5 proslavery settlers near Pottawatomie Creek
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antislavery settlers in Kansas territory who voted against allowing slavery in the territory
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Detailed explanation-1: -Proslavery Missourians who crossed the border to vote in Kansas became known as border ruffians. Border ruffians helped to secure a proslavery legislature in Kansas, which drafted a proslavery constitution known as the Lecompton Constitution.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
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: -Those proslavery Missourians who voted and participated in Kansas’s territorial politics legally, extralegally, illegally, and often with threats and violence were the first to be called “border ruffians.”
Detailed explanation-5: -Originally named “Bald Eagle, ” Lecompton became the capital of Kansas Territory in 1855 and was home to a proslavery legislature that had been elected by widespread voter fraud, perpetuated by Missourians who crossed the border to vote in the Kansas elections.