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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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.
The compromises were infective in resolving the issue of slavery for a number of reasons. For one, popular sovereignty allowed those within the border states to decide whether they wanted slavery or not. Since the decision was not federally mandated, free soil partisans and border ruffians often clashed over the issue of slavery. This was especially true in Kansas, which became a hotbed for abolitionist and pro-slavery groups. It would literally take a 4 year Civil War to help free the slaves in the border states and throughout the rest of the country.
It is called the border. There are border crossing set up on most of them to control who comes in or out of the country.
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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.