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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.

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It started being called that after a series of blooding riots during the battle of slavery and anti-slavery forces on the Kansas-Nebraska border in 1855, though the violence began in1854 and continued until about 1864.

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Many acts of slavery related violence within Kansas.

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Kansas became known as the "bleeding Kansas" because of the conflicts, the deadly ones between pro slavery people and anti slavery people.

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because in a war alot of blood was sheed

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