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Bleeding Kansas Events Flashcards

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What is the Popular Sovereignty Plan?

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Citizens of each new territory should vote to decide whether or not to allow slavery

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What occurred at the Kansas election in 1855, for free or slave state?

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New England abolitionists and

Pro-Slavery southerners moved to Kansas

resulting in a corrupted election

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What did the southerners do after the corrupted election?

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On May 1856, a Pro-Slave mob of over 700 settlers from Missouri attacked

Anti-Slavery settlers in Lawrence,Kansas

Destroyed their headquarters of the Free Slavery Party

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What did the Northerners do after the Kansas election?

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John Brown, an abolitionist attacked a

Pro-Slavery settlement along Pottawatomie Creek

He dragged 5 men out of bed and murdered them

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Why did Bleeding Kansas occur?

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Senator Stephan Douglas believed in the Popular Sovereignty Plan

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