Bleeding Kansas
نص القصة المصورة
- Backstory/Uprising
- North
- Anti-Slavery
- Pro-Slavery
- South
- 1854-59
- 1855
- First Free State Constitution
- Because of the Missouri Compromise the 36 degree parallel to which the territories were later labelled as Nebraska and Kansas. The issue was that citizens from the North and South were rapidly moving to newer territories to ensure that they were in the majority of their party.
- 1856
- Citizens began rushing to Kansas to get the majority of people on their side. Pro-slavery citizens were usually closer and had crossed the borers of Missouri and Anti-Slavery citizens came from as far as New England.
- 1857
- Kansas declared a Slave State
- In Topeka, Kansas, a settlers' assembly established the Topeka Constitution, which was Kansas' first Free State constitution. The Topeka Constitution was stalled in Congress, unable to clear the anti-slavery Senate.
- 1861
- Charles Sumner, an abolitionist senator presented a speech titled, “The Crime Against Kansas,” to disparage an entire state of South Carolina. To by then, a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina took it upon himself to beat the living daylights out of Sumner with a cane to avenge the honor of his state
- The Lecompton Constitution, created by pro-slavery settlers, would have made Kansas a slave state. Despite President Buchanan's backing, the free-state majority in the House of Representatives defeated the Lecompton Constitution.
- Kansas was admitted to the Union as a free state on January 29, 1861, after the Deep South's secession generated a free-state majority in the US Senate.
- Its now a free state
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