USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -This period of guerrilla warfare is referred to as Bleeding Kansas because of the blood shed by pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups, lasting until the violence died down in roughly 1859.

Detailed explanation-2: -Three distinct political groups occupied Kansas: pro-slavery, Free-Staters and abolitionists. Violence broke out immediately between these opposing factions and continued until 1861 when Kansas entered the Union as a free state on January 29. This era became forever known as Bleeding Kansas.

Detailed explanation-3: -Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas, or the Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859. It emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bleeding Kansas, (1854–59), small civil war in the United States, fought between proslavery and antislavery advocates for control of the new territory of Kansas under the doctrine of popular sovereignty.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Southern outcry over the North trying to promote abolition was responsible for the violence in “Bleeding Kansas.” The violence might have been viewed as a “prelude to Civil War” because The North and South fought over seemingly irreconcilable differences, and the fighting continued into the Civil War.