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BLEEDING KANSAS between 1854-1861. BY: KEIARA DENMAN. What may have been going on?. Bleeding Kansas also known as: Bloody Kansas B order W ar A proxy war between Northerners and Southerners Over the issue of Slavery in the United State.
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BLEEDING KANSAS between 1854-1861 BY: KEIARA DENMAN
What may have been going on? • Bleeding Kansas also known as: • Bloody Kansas • Border War • A proxy war between Northerners and Southerners Over the issue of Slavery in the United State. • Bleeding Kansas was a term coined by Horace Greely of New York Tribune. • It also presaged the American Civil War.
WHO WHERE APART OF THE EVENTS? • Anti-Slavery (ABOLITIONISTS) • Pro-Slavery (BORDER RUFFIAN ELEMENTS) • Free Staters • The question they all wanted to know was whether Kansas would enter the Union as a Free State or Slave State. • Violence between the groups continued until Kansas entered the union as a free state in January 29, 1861.
Where? • Kansas Territory • Western Frontier towns of the U.S State of Missouri
Compromise of 1850 • Calm to the nation • Blacks and abolitionists opposed the compromise, but majority of Americans embraced it • Would be a workable solution to the slavery question • Also saved union from terrible split
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 • It established boundaries of Nebraska and Kansas • Used popular Sovereignty
Murder and Mayhem • Massacre in May 1856 at Pottawtomie Creek where John Brown and His sons killed five pro-slavery advocates. • Summer of 1856 30 pro-slavery settlers from South Carolina arrived in Bourbon County • They where apart of the Southern Emigrant Aid society & dark Lantern Societies • Which terrorized free state settlers and attempted drive them from Kansas
A town Divided • “Old Fort” - known as Fort Scott • Sold to public auction from fort became the nucleus of a rapidly growing town. • Two of the buildings became hotels • Fort Scott • “Free State Hotel” • across from the street was (parade ground) Was the western - “Pro Slavery Hotel”
1858 : A most Violent Year • Intensified in southeast Kansas • James Montgomery became leader of free state forces and involved in several violent incidents. • In April : - Montgomery and his men fought U.S troops stationed at Fort Scott in Battle of Paint Creek. ( one soldier was killed in encounter.) • In May: • they repelled Pro-Slavery forces from Linn County (11 free Staters were pulled out of their homes and taken to a ravine and shot down. (incident known as “Marais Des Cygnes Massacre” rumored to have been plotted in the Western Hotel.)
Cont. • In June: • they tried to burn down the Hotel shots were fired in hotel and homes around, but the hotel was saved. • On the 15, the Governor held a meeting in the Western Hotel in order to settle Political unrest, the meeting progressed into a riot. (peace and tranquility reigned for a brief 5 month period.) • In December: • Montgomery and his followers struck again and then Montgomery rescued Benjamin Rice (he was arrested for murder and imprisoned in Fort Scott Hotel.) • Montgomery felt he was jailed illegally and went to free him.
The ending! • Before they entered the union: • Deputy Marshal John Little (Pro-Slavery Advocate) fired shots into ranks of Free Staters. When he looked out the window to see what he had done Little had been shot and killed by a Free-Stater. • LittlesFiance’, Gene Campbell wrote a letter to Montgomery on how she felt about him. • In which not to much later they became a Free State!
Research • Main Source from: • http://thomaslegion.net/bleedingkansas.html • Helping sources • Wikipedia • Review book!
