The experiment with 'popular sovereignty', where the people of a state could vote whether it would be a slave-state or free soil.
Feelings were strong on either side, and armed gangs crossed into the state from both North and South to intimidate voters.
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Slavery was an issue that contributed to the event of Bleeding Kansas. Bleeding Kansas was also known as the Bloody Kansas war.
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
The Kansas-Nebraska Act also led to "Bleeding Kansas," a mini civil war that erupted in Kansas in 1856. Northerners and Southerners flooded Kansas in 1854 and 1855, determined to convert the future state to their view on slavery.