Bleeding Kansas By: Garrett Evans Today, John Brown and his followers created a bloody raid in 1855. John Brown is New Englander who moved to Kansas to fight against the Kansas/ Nebraska Act. John Brown's party shot and killed five Bushwhackers. The Bushwhackers were the people for slavery, and the people against slavery were known as the Jayhawkers. This incident was a result of his anti-Kansas/Nebraska Act views. John Brown moved to Kansas a just …
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…drew a line across the U.S. Owning Slaves was legal below this line, and above the line, illegal. The Kansas/Nebraska Act stated that the people Kansas and Nebraska had the chance for legal slavery only if the people of those states voted pro-slavery even though these states were above the line of the Missouri Compromise. The North greatly disagreed with this Act causing the conflicts between the South and the North. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**