Bleeding Kansas is the name given to the conflict that opposed Northern emigrants desiring to make Kansas a free state and proslavery raiders who crossed the river from Missouri and cast illicit votes to make Kansas a slave state. Abraham Lincoln considered the Nebraska Act a legal term for the perpetuation and expansion of slavery and, as such, nothing less than the possible death knell of the Union and the meaning of America. Kansas would eventually be admitted as a free state in 1861.
Title: Sectionalism and Civil War, 1848-1865
Author: Richard Sewell
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