Thesis
In the mid 1850s, controversies over the presence of slavery in the middle territories resulted in violence in the Kansas territory. These violent actions, known as Bleeding Kansas, began when popular sovereignty was introduced to Kansas through the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Though the act was intended to diffuse the tension in the country over slavery and allow the voters to decide, it caused people both in favor and opposed to slavery to flow into Kansas to influence the vote, such as border ruffians and abolitionists. Because of the political unrest existing in the territory, and the tense atmosphere of the country at the brink of a civil war, violent and passionate actions began.
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