Bloody Kansas U.S. history 1789-1860
It is called Bloody Kansas/ Bleeding Kansas because it was in kansas and it was a very violent war the time frame of the war was during 1789-1860. The reason why the war occurred because it involved anti-slavery and free staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian".
Here is a map of Bleeding Kansas the red parts are all where the war occourred
The Bloody Kansas war reflects life now because
In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraksa Act overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory and instead, using the principle of popular sovereignty, decreed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free state or a slave state.
The bleeding kansas war reflects on today in us history because “Bleeding Kansas" was a term used by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune to describe the violent hostilities between pro and antislavery forces in the Kansas territory during the mid and late 1850s.
