Bleeding Kansas
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- Missouri Compromise
- California is admitted as a free state into this country!
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- The Kansas-Nebraska Act will repeal the Missouri Compromise
- Kansas must be a free state!!!
- Start of Bleeding Kansas
- Make Kansas a slave state!!!
- The Missouri Compromise admitted California as a free state which many were not in favor of.
- Beecher's Bibles
- The Kansas-Nebraska Act included a provision repealing the Missouri Compromise and organized Kansas and Nebraska territories based on popular sovereignty.
- Caning of Charles Sumner
- As a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, many pro slavery and antislavery settlers rushed into Kansas territory to try to create majorities for their own sides.
- Kansas finally admitted
- Kansas will enter as a free state
- Henry Ward Beecher supplied the Northern abolitionists with rifles. This became known as "Beecher's Bibles."
- Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner with a cane after he had a speech in which he insulted Senator Andrew Butler (relative of Brooks).
- Kansas was finally admitted into the Union as a free state after the secession of the Deep South created a free-state majority.
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