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    • Keep Kansas from becoming a slave state

      • Abolitionists in the northeastern states became determined to keep Kansas from becoming a slave state. They organized emigrant aid companies to encourage antislavery supporters to move to Kansas.
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      Emigrant Aid Societies - Kansapedia - Kansas Historical Society

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  3. www.history.com › topics › 19th-centuryBleeding Kansas ‑ Summary, Causes & John Brown's Role - HISTORY

    Oct 27, 2009 · In New England, a group of abolitionists formed the Emigrant Aid Company, which sent anti-slavery settlers to Kansas to ensure it would become a free territory. On the other side, thousands of...

  4. www.history.com › news › bleeding-kansas-civil-warHow Bleeding Kansas Led to the Civil War - HISTORY

    Sep 15, 2023 · As the Free Staters, abolitionists and proslavery forces fought for control of Kansas, more outbreaks of violence occurred, including shootouts between the factions, guerilla warfare and the ...

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  6. www.kshs.org › p › john-brownJohn Brown - Kansas Historical Society

    When Kansas Territory opened for settlement in 1854 several members of Brown’s family moved to the area. His half-sister Florella (Brown) and her husband Samuel Adair, were abolitionists and drawn to be a part of the free-state cause.

  7. www.kshs.org › kansapedia › abolitionAbolition - Kansapedia - Kansas Historical Society

    Abolitionists were people who believed that slavery was immoral and who wanted slavery in the United States to come to an end. They had influenced political debates in the United States from the late 17th century through the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854.

  8. www.kshs.org › kansapedia › settlement-in-kansasSettlement in Kansas - Kansapedia - Kansas Historical Society

    The Kickapoo, originally from Wisconsin, were removed to Kansas in 1832 from Missouri. In 1836 the Iowas from north of the Great Lakes were assigned a reservation in Kansas. In 1838 the Potawatomis began their move from northern Indiana.

  9. www.britannica.com › event › Bleeding-Kansas-UnitedBleeding Kansas | History, Effects, & John Brown | Britannica

    Oct 8, 2024 · “Bleeding Kansas” became a fact with the Sack of Lawrence (May 21, 1856), in which a proslavery mob swarmed into the town of Lawrence and wrecked and burned the hotel and newspaper office in an effort to wipe out the “hotbed of abolitionism.”

  10. www.battlefields.org › learn › articlesBleeding Kansas - American Battlefield Trust

    Feb 14, 2019 · On May 21, 1856 hundreds of border ruffians once again crossed the border between Missouri and Kansas and entered Lawrence to wreak havoc—setting fire to buildings and destroying the printing press of an abolitionist newspaper.

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