To attract every bully-boy in America (from both sides) to the thinly-populated state of Kansas, to intimidate the locals, who were voting for or against slavery, and declare results to be rigged.
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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.