Bleeding Kansas Timeline

Missouri Compromise is passed

It was passed in March 30, 1820 after a month of bitter debate. It was passed it resolve slavery and anti slavery. But the resolve was only temporraliy. On March 3, 1820, congress passed a bill granting statehood as a slaver state under the condition that slavery was forever prohibited in the rest of the lousianna purchase.

Kansas Nebraska Act is passed

the Kansas Nebraska Act was created on May 30, 1854. Din't know who created the Kansas Nebraska Act but Congress name Stephen A. Dougla played a major role in it. Kansas Nerbraska Act was created so Kansas would become a slave state and expand. That is what Dougla wanted seen he was a expansionist

Bogus Legislature meets for the first time

Bogus Legislature meets in March 30, 1855. A Bogus Legislature mean Kansas first Territory's first governing body. It was called that because the free staters believed this proslavery legislature was illegitimate due to election fraud. Free staters referred to this group as the "Bogus Legislature" because, in their view, it had come to power by fraudulent means. Paradoxically, they recognized some of the laws it passed such as those establishing county boundaries and local governing units.

James Lane brings settlers to Kansas

James Lane voted for the Kansas Nebraska Act. After he came to Kansas territory he begain to fight again proslavery. He called the proslavery people "Wolves, snakes, and devil." He organized 400 setters from northern states to come to Kansas to fight again slavery. He and his "Lane Army" protect Presidents Lincoln. But the Civil War began when James Lane was sent to Washington D.C., Southern forces attacked Fort Sumter.

Pottawatomie Massacre

In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence, Kansas by pro-slavery forces, John Brown and a band of abolitionist settlers—some of them members of the Pottawatomie Rifles—killed five settlers north of Pottawatomie Creek in Franklin County, Kansas. Before the night was through, five victims lay brutally slain by the hands of John Brown. John Brown's followers insisted that he did no killing at the Pottawatomie Massacre, but he did decide which men would live and which would die. It was the South's turn to be outraged. Pottawatomie Massacre, (May 24–25, 1856), murder of five men from a proslavery settlement on Pottawatomie Creek, Franklin county, Kan., U.S., by an antislavery party led by the abolitionist John Brown and composed largely of men of his family.

Samuel Jones attacks Lawrence

Samuel J. Jones was born around 1820 in the southern state of Virginia. He moved west with his family, settling in Westport, Missouri, in 1854. Kansas Territory had just opened, and popular sovereignty allowed voters to determine whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Jones supported the proslavery. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​He quickly became involved with the proslavery movement. During the first election in Kansas Territory, Jones led a group of proslavery men into Kansas to disrupt the election. The career of Samuel Jones was marked by threats and violence. Shortly after Jones became sheriff, he found himself in the middle of the "Wakarusa War."

Marais Des Cygnes Massacre

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 made Kansas a territory whose people would decide whether it was admitted to the Union as a slave or free state. This set off a rivalry with proslavery supporters from bordering Missouri. The conflict escalated into the violence known as “Bleeding Kansas.” Missouri border ruffians like Charles Hamilton led raids into Kansas to steal goods and harass freestaters. Missouri border ruffians like Charles Hamilton led raids into Kansas to steal goods and harass freestaters. Hamilton and some 30 other men rode through the village of Trading Post, captured 11 free-state men, and marched them into a ravine where they opened fire upon them. Five of the men were killed, five were seriously injured, and one escaped unharmed. The community was drawn together in the face of these events even as they were unfolding. Sarah Read, wife of the captured Reverend Benjamin L. Read, set off on foot, spyglass in hand, to chase down Hamilton and his men. She came upon the victims, some still alive, and tried to render aid. Locally, wrathful indignation accompanied feelings of shock. John Brown, arriving at the scene toward the end of June, built a "fort" some 220 yards south of the ravine.

Wyandotte Costitutional Convention

Following the events of “Bleeding Kansas” and the defeat of the Lecompton Constitution, in July 1859 when the delegates assembled at Wyandotte, the people assumed that Kansas was to be a free state. Drawn up at Wyandotte (now part of Kansas City) in July 1859, it was the fourth constitution voted on by the people of Kansas Territory, as the battle between proslavery and antislavery forces during the Bleeding Kansas era spread to the debate over the terms of the new state's charter. Wyandotte Constitution. Official copy of the Wyandotte Constitution that became the Constitution of the State of Kansas on January 29, 1861, when Kansas was admitted to the United States of America as the 34th state. Following the events of “Bleeding Kansas” and the defeat of the Lecompton Constitution, in July 1859 when the delegates assembled at Wyandotte, the people assumed that Kansas James Hanway, Convention Delegatewas to be a free state. Both Republicans and Democrats followed the examples set at Topeka and Leavenworth. They quickly inserted a clause prohibiting slavery in the Bill of Rights.

John Brown

John Brown was a radical abolitionist who believed in the violent overthrow of the slavery system. Brown and his sons led attacks on pro-slavery residents. Justifying his actions as the will of God, he kills five of the most damagerest proslavery people had ever know. All of his son was kills, some were by natural cause but the other was kill because of Jonh Brown and how he show his dislike od slavery (I know dislike is below how he feel a both slavery). By early 1858, he had succeeded in enlisting a small “army” of insurrectionists whose mission was to foment rebellion among the slaves. In 1859, Brown and 21 of his followers attacked and occupied the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry. Their goal was to capture supplies and use them to arm a slave rebellion. Brown was captured during the raid and later hanged, but not before becoming an anti-slavery icon.

Lincoln is elected presidents

In 1860, Lincoln secured the Republican Party presidential nomination as a moderate from a swing state, though most delegates originally favored other candidates. Though he gained very little support in the slaveholding states of the South, he swept the North and was elected president in 1860. Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates: Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, a U.S. senator for Illinois. In the November 1860 election, Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a heavily divided Democratic Party, as well as Breckinridge and Bell. The announcement of Lincoln’s victory signaled the secession of the Southern states, which since the beginning of the year had been publicly threatening secession if the Republicans gained the White House.

South Carolina secedes

With the election in 1860 of Abraham Lincoln, who ran on a message of containing slavery to where it currently existed, and the success of the Republican Party to which he belonged – the first entirely regional party in US history – in that election, South Carolina seceded on December 20, 1860, the first state to ever. When the ordinance was adopted on December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States. The state governor, William H. Gist, saided to the other southern governors that South Carolina would secede if Lincoln won the election.

Kansas becomes a state

When the area was opened to settlement by the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 it became a battlefield that helped cause the American Civil War. Settlers from North and South came in order to vote slavery down or up. President James Buchanan signed the bill into law on January 29. Overanxious Topeka editors began to announce admission after the bill passed the senate on January 21. The Topeka Tribune, January 26, 1861, stated: KANSAS A STATE. Kansas becomes a state on January 29, 1861 not a slave state but a free state which tip the balance.

End of the Civil War

Grant on April 9th, 1865. The war between the States of the Union and the States of the Confederacy helped mould the identity and political language of the modern US. This week marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War, which concluded when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9th, 1865. The war between the States of the Union and the States of the Confederacy helped mould the identity and political language of the modern US. The North won the Civil War. After four years of conflict, the last major Confederate armies surrendered to the United States in April of 1865. Southern states then had to apply for readmission to the Union. C. The Federal government proved itself supreme over the states.

Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence

The Lawrence massacre (also known as Quantrill's raid) was an attack during the American Civil War (1861–65) by the Quantrill's Raiders, a Confederate guerilla group led by William Quantrill, on the Unionist town of Lawrence, Kansas. William Quantrill's raid on the Free-State town of Lawrence, Kansas was a defining moment in the border conflict. At dawn on August 21, 1863, Quantrill and his guerrillas rode into Lawrence, where they burned much of the town and killed between 160 and 190 men and boys. The guerrillas was proslavery and confilct with the free-stater. George Ellis, a free black man, had risen early to finish some work on his family’s farm. The raiders killed George’s father, but George, his brother Ben, and his mother Jane managed to survive. George hid in a dense thicket near the Kansas River, and after Quantrill’s men set the house afire, Jane successfully dragged Ben out of the flames and concealed him underneath a feather bed.

Battle of Mine Creek

The Battle of Mine Creek, also known as the Battle of the Osage, was a battle that occurred on October 25, 1864, in Kansas as part of Price's Raid during the American Civil War. One of the largest cavalry battles of the Civil War was fought in the fields around Mine Creek. The Confederates suffered more casualties from the battle at Mine Creek than did the Union troops. Union losses were 94 wounded, 15 killed, and one captured. Confederate losses were 250 wounded, 300 killed, and 600 captured.

Dred scott Decision was passed by the Supreme Court

On this day in 1857, the United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories, there by negating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party. When popular sovereignty was applied in Kansas in 1854, however, violence erupted. Dred Scott was a slave whose owner, an army doctor, had spent time in Illinois, a free state, and Wisconsin, a free territory at the time of Scott’s residence. The court held that Scott was not free based on his residence in either Illinois or Wisconsin becausehe was not considered a person under the U.S. Constitution–in the opinion of the justices, black people were not considered citizens when the Constitution was drafted in 1787.