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Kansas-Nebraska Act (view source)
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Widespread low-level violence turned the new territory of Kansas into [[Bleeding Kansas]] 1855-56. (Nebraska was a separate territory and did not have trouble.)
Widespread low-level violence turned the new territory of Kansas into [[Bleeding Kansas]] 1855-56. (Nebraska was a separate territory and did not have trouble.)
Multiple votes over slavery ended up taking place in Kansas, and they were rife with accusations of voter fraud.
Multiple votes over slavery ended up taking place in Kansas, and they were rife with accusations of voter fraud.
Abolitionist [[John Brown]] and his sons helped in the fight against them and executed five pro-slavery farmers at Pottawatomie, then fled to Iowa. Successive territorial governors, usually sympathetic to slavery, attempted unsuccessfully to maintain the peace. The territorial capital of Lecompton, the target of much agitation, consequently became such a hostile environment for free-soilers that they set up their own unofficial legislature at Topeka.
Abolitionist [[John Brown]] and his sons helped in the fight against them and executed five pro-slavery farmers at Pottawatomie, then fled to Iowa. Successive territorial governors, usually sympathetic to slavery, attempted unsuccessfully to maintain the peace. The territorial capital of Lecompton, the target of much agitation, consequently became such a hostile environment for free-soilers that they set up their own unofficial legislature at Topeka.
[[Image:Bleed-kansas.jpg|thumb|260px]]
The hostilities between the factions reached a state of low-intensity civil war which was extremely embarrassing to Pierce, especially as the nascent Republican Party sought to capitalize on the scandal of [[Bleeding Kansas]]. The routine ballot-rigging and intimidation practiced by pro-slavery settlers failed to deter the immigration of anti-slavery settlers who won a demographic victory by winning the race to populate the state.
The hostilities between the factions reached a state of low-intensity civil war which was extremely embarrassing to Pierce, especially as the nascent Republican Party sought to capitalize on the scandal of [[Bleeding Kansas]]. The routine ballot-rigging and intimidation practiced by pro-slavery settlers failed to deter the immigration of anti-slavery settlers who won a demographic victory by winning the race to populate the state.