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  2. Sacking of Lawrence - Wikipedia

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    The sacking of Lawrence occurred on May 21, 1856, when pro-slavery settlers, led by Douglas County Sheriff Samuel J. Jones, attacked and ransacked Lawrence, Kansas, a town that had been founded by anti-slavery settlers from Massachusetts who were hoping to make Kansas a free state.

  3. Pottawatomie massacre - Wikipedia

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    The Pottawatomie massacre occurred on the night of May 24–25, 1856, in the Kansas Territory, United States.In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence by pro-slavery forces on May 21, and the telegraphed news of the severe attack on Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, John Brown and a band of abolitionist settlers—some of them members of the Pottawatomie Rifles—responded violently.

  4. Lawrence Massacre - Wikipedia

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    The Lawrence Massacre (also known as Quantrill's Raid) was an attack during the American Civil War (1861–65) by Quantrill's Raiders, a Confederate guerrilla group led by William Quantrill, on the Unionist town of Lawrence, Kansas, killing around 150 men and boys.

  5. List of battles fought in Kansas - Wikipedia

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    Sacking of Lawrence: May 21, 1856 Lawrence, Kansas Bleeding Kansas 1 [6] Pro-slavery mob [7] vs abolitionist civilians Pottawatomie massacre [8] May 24–25, 1856 Franklin County, Kansas: Bleeding Kansas 5 Free-Staters [9] vs Pro-slavery settlers [10] Battle of Black Jack [11] June 2, 1856 near modern Baldwin City, Kansas: Bleeding Kansas

  6. List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States

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    1856 – Sacking of Lawrence, Kansas, May 21, 1856, when proslavery settlers ransacked Lawrence, Kansas, founded by antislavery Yankees. Kansas Territory became known as Bleeding Kansas . 1856 – Battle of Seattle (1856) , Jan 26, Attack by Native American tribesmen upon Seattle, Washington .

  7. Bleeding Kansas - Wikipedia

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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 .

  8. Timeline of Kansas history - Wikipedia

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    1803: Kansas, as part of the Louisiana Purchase, annexed to the United States as unorganized territory. 1806: Zebulon Pike passes through the region, and labels it "the Great American Desert" on his maps. 1812: The Kansa and Pawnee fight a large battle at Blue Earth Village.

  9. The Eldridge Hotel - Wikipedia

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    The company erected a temporary way station in Lawrence for these settlers, named the Free State Hotel. On May 21, 1856, Douglas County sheriff Samuel J. Jones and a large group of pro-slavery men arrived in Lawrence and burned down the Free State Hotel as part of the Sack of Lawrence. After this disaster, the anti-slavery individual Shalor ...