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The "Bleeding Kansas" period has been dramatically rendered in many works of American popular culture, including literature, theater, film, and television. Santa Fe Trail (1940) is an American Western film set before the Civil War, which depicts John Brown's campaign during Bleeding Kansas, starring Ronald Reagan, Errol Flynn, and Raymond Massey.
It passed the House by two votes on July 2, but was held in committee by the Senate. On July 8, Senator Stephen A. Douglas took up the Topeka Constitution in a bill counter to Senator Cass, which threw the issue back upon the people of Kansas in accordance with the provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
This 1856 map shows slave states (gray), free states (pink), U.S. territories (green), and Kansas (white). Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas, or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian", or "Southern" elements in ...
On the same day the last of them left, Monday, January 21, 1861, the Senate passed the Kansas bill. [1] Kansas's admission as a free state became effective Tuesday, January 29, 1861. The Wyandotte Constitution remains Kansas's current constitution.
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
The bill passed Congress with bipartisan support just hours before the government was set to shut down. Congress passes bill to avoid a shutdown. Here’s how Kansas and Missouri lawmakers voted
The Battle of Black Jack took place on June 2, 1856, when antislavery forces, led by the noted abolitionist John Brown, attacked the encampment of Henry C. Pate near Baldwin City, Kansas. The battle is cited as one incident of "Bleeding Kansas" and a contributing factor leading up to the American Civil War of 1861 to 1865.
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