Bleeding Kansas was a sort of civil war in Kansas of people fighting over whether the state would be anti-slavery or pro-slavery. From the notes taken by my group and I we come up with a starting point of this event in the year 1848. This event lasted 29 years until 1877. The effects of Bleeding Kansas lasted throughout the civil war and this event is probably one of the reasons we are an anti-slavery country (United States of America). During the time of Bleeding Kansas the earth was much like it is today (1998). Kansas geography is in the Great Plains in Mid-Western U.S.A. Some of the animals living in plains are snakes and tarantulas. The Kansas area allowed very good farming for wheat products. Therefore farmers wanted slaves to increase farming and product.
One of the more famous persons of Bleeding Kansas was John Brown. He was born in Connecticut. His father told him stories of farmers who owned slaves and he grew angry with the farmers. From then on he would be against slavery. John Brown planned to end slavery by attacking and raiding farms in Virginia and freeing all of the slaves. He and his men were attacked by the Virginia Miltia and 13 men including 1 of his sons were killed. He and the other son were wounded and captured. That son died later. John brown was tried for treason, conspiracy, and murder. He was found guilty on all those accounts and hanged.
James Buchanan, our fifteenth president, caused a major shift in the republican party so that the republicans became anti-slavery. Preston Brooks, a member of the House of Representitives was all for anti-slavery. Henry Ward Beecher was a major person of anti-slavery. Here are some key terms involved in Bleeding Kansas and/or the Civil War:
chattel=property of humans(slaves)
Filibusters=500 Southeners who had a dream of an empire of slavery
civil=a word that comes from the word civilization meaning in or of a
citizens.
Sources: http://orion.jscc.cgn.us/~lgundy/us1ppt3/tsld062,htm
Electric Library: Tracy Barrett,Chapter 4: The Bloody Fight to Become a Free State, Harpers Ferry, 10-1-93
Brown, John (1800-1859) Young Students Learning Library 1-1-96
Pierce, Franklin, The Reader's Companion to American History 1-1-91