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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.
That was the attempt to allow the people of a new state to vote whether to be slave or free. ('Popular Sovrereignty') It was proposed by Stephen Douglas, who beat Lincoln to the Senatorial post in Illinois.
To try to influence the local 'Popular Sovereignty' vote on whether Kansas would be a slave-state or free soil.Thats wrong the answer is They wanted to make sure Kansas became pro-slave. -$ane
Prior to the Civil War, several bloody clashes occurred between pro-slave and pro-free citizens while they were deciding their own status: whether to allow slavery or not, when they became a state.
Bloody Monday happened in 1855.