Why is it called Bloody Kansas?

Answer 1

I just wanted to say thanks for the song on my question about the dogs. It was funny and made me smile..so thanks

Answer 2

It's called bloody Kansas because of all the murders and riots that took place during the 1850's over the issue of slavery. Here's how it started.

The first phase of hostility declared itself on the soil of Kansas, organized as a Territory on May 30, 1854. The decision that slavery might be introduced there led to warlike conflicts between settlers from the Northern States and armed parties from the adjoining slave State of Missouri. An organized effort had been made by the anti-slavery societies of the North to secure Kansas, by colonization with emigrants of abolition sentiments. Missouri made an equally strong effort to secure it to slavery, but rather by violence than by colonization. An armed band of two hundred and fifty Missourians marched upon the settlers at the new town of Lawrence, and threatened to drive them out at the point of the bayonet if they did not immediately strike their tents and leave the Territory. They refused to do so, and their assailants retired, without carrying out their threat. But this battle of words was followed by a series of sanguinary assaults upon the settlers, in which a state of actual war was inaugurated.

Answer 3

it' not anymore, it was in the 1850s, because Kansas was the state that broke the camels proverbial back over the whole issue in the USA of when a new state joined weather it was to be a slave state or a free state, and people tore into one another over it, John Brown lead many raids for a free Kansas, but killed and murdered, as well as hired gun men and burned towns to get his extreme abolitionist ideas across, he was later captured in Virginia and hung, anyways several dozens where killed, no one knows the exact figures, possible hundreds, and it fanned the flames of separation of the Union a year or so later.

Answer 4

Better than going to Wikipedia - try finding books online, in public libraries, or in used bookstores.

Just by entering a search I found: 'War to the Knife: Bleeding Kansas', 'Black Flag', 'Bloody Bill Anderson', 'Bloody Dawn', and 'Slavery and the American West.'

Answer 5

Watching tv is easier but I enjoy reading literature more

Answer 6

while reading a written publication, you're stimulating your brain. You increase your literacy and reading skills therefore you in the process, become more literate. Even with today's modern technology, you should be in a position to read still.
While you're watching t.v. can be good fun, it isn't doing anything to the human brain.

Answer 7

Boston Terriers Rule!

Answer 8

Read about it here:

http://www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_Historians_Vol_III/bloodykan_da.html



g-day!

Answer 9

Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_Kansas
it has the answer.