Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent politival attacks due between the anti slavery Free Soil Party and pro-slavery settlers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXckep8mvME Bleeding Kansas Video/Song
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h84.html Bleeding Kansas Information
http://causesofthecivilwar.wikispaces.com/%E2%80%9CBleeding+Kansas%E2%80%9D Summary
Impact:
1. Kansas was accepted as a free state
2. A new constitution was drafted
Key Figures:
1. John Brown- abolitionist, would stop at nothing to end the expansion of slavery.
1. Kansas was accepted as a free state
2. A new constitution was drafted
Key Figures:
1. John Brown- abolitionist, would stop at nothing to end the expansion of slavery.
Pottawatomie Massacre
The Pottawatomie Massacre as a result from the Missouri Compromise and Kansas Nebraska Act. The attack was a response to the sacking of Lawrence by pro slavery settlers. John Brown and a group of abolitionists settlers killed five settlers north of Pottawatomie Creek. This attack was one of many violent episodes leading up to the American Civil War.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/31d.asp
http://www.ushistory.org/us/31d.asp