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Bleeding Kansas: Conflict In The Louisiana Purchase

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By Chase Hubbs Word count:462 Introduction Bleeding kansas, a conflict that took place in the territory of the Louisiana purchase. People fought over slavery in 1854-1861, towns were destroyed and many people were killed. It precluded to the Civil War and the compromise was the Kansas-Nebraska act. Historical context There was conflict in the Kansas Nebraska territories due to slavery. Opposing governments were made in 1855, one government was pro slavery the other was anti slavery. These two parties clashed over slavery. Pro slavery people shipped goods and supplies into the Kansas territory trying to help their side win the conflict.("Bleeding Kansas"). In the following months new leaders …show more content…

Also another important person who participated was Henry Ward Breecher.He was the man that armed anti slavery people they were called “Breecher’s bibles” because he was a priest. Media typeCitationTagNotecards Web Site Web Page View live web page Archive & annotate "Bleeding Kansas." Britannica.com, www.britannica.com/event/ Bleeding-Kansas-United-States-history. Accessed 6 Nov. 2017. This a short encyclopedia article about Bleeding Kansas, As a tertiary source, this is a website that I can trust because it has references. As the first source we found, this gave our group background and a summary of the …show more content…

cheriworkman(02/21/18 10:24AM,Comment) Comment Question Send Web Site Web Page View live web page Archive & annotate "What Caused Bleeding Kansas." Reference.com, www.reference.com/history/ caused-bleeding-kansas-36dec2aac5c68d86. Accessed 8 Nov. 2017. This website gives us answers on bleeding Kansas. This is a good source and I trust it because all different people looked and edited on it. As our last source it touched up some topics we didn't understand Created by : william_malmen@sacredheartboise.com (William M) on 11/08/17 02:21PM | Updated : 02/14/18 02:19PM T 2 Show | New Options Comments : Comment Question Send Web Site View live web page Archive & annotate WWW.PDF.com. kcpl-vital-app.iii.com:9020/vital/access/services/Download/ kcpl:12681/PDFTRANSCRIPT?view=true. Accessed 15 Feb. 2018. This site can be trusted because it is from the 1850's when bleeding Kansas happened. This is a primary source because of the date it was created. This site is multiple journal entries from 1850's Created by : william_malmen@sacredheartboise.com (William M) on 02/15/18 11:22AM | Updated : 02/15/18

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