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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 .
Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society. Topeka: Kansas Publishing House. pp. 145– 156. Socolofsky, Homer E. (2021). Kansas Governors. Topeka: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 9780700631704. United States Congress (1950). Biographical Directory of the American Congress: 1774-1949. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
From December 3, 1855, to February 2, 1856, the incoming House of Representatives held an election for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.After one hundred and thirty-two inconclusive ballots, Nathaniel Prentiss Banks of Massachusetts was elected over William Aiken Jr. of South Carolina pursuant to a temporary rule permitting a candidate to be elected with a plurality of the vote.
Reeder was a very loyal member of the Democratic Party and supported the idea of popular sovereignty which dealt with territories' decisions on the issue of slavery.On June 29, 1854, President Franklin Pierce appointed Reeder to the office of the governor of the territory of Kansas and remained in office until August 16, 1855, when he was fired.
The Marais des Cygnes massacre (/ ˌ m ɛər d ə ˈ z iː n,-ˈ s iː n, ˈ m ɛər d ə z iː n /, [1] [2] also / m ə ˌ r iː d ə ˈ s iː n, m ə ˌ r eɪ d ə ˈ s eɪ n /) [citation needed] is considered the last significant act of violence in Bleeding Kansas prior to the outbreak of the American Civil War.
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This is known as the "Bleeding Kansas" period. On December 4, 1855, during the "Wakarusa War", ... 1868 act of Congress.) [4] On October 6, 2012, an historic marker ...
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