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The Border Ruffians were people who went to another state to vote for it to be a slave state. They were usually carrying rifles or some sort of gun. They caused lots of violence.

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Americans traveling into Kansas to vote to make Kansas either a slave state or free state. These people were usually armed with some sort of weapon like a gun or sword.

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Proslavery elements in Kansas manipulated the statutes of the Kansas-Nebraska Act by?

Pro-slavery elements in Kansas manipulated the statues of the Kansas-Nebraska act by encouraging and arming pro-slavery residents from Missouri. These Missouri residents crossed into Kansas specifically for voting in these ballots. They were known as border ruffians.


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They were disappointed that the experiment with putting slavery to the vote seemed to be causing violence, and they blamed the South for sending ruffians into Kansas to intimidate the voters. The South, of course, blamed the North for doing the same.