Bleeding Kansas

city in and county seat of Douglas County, Kansas, United States

John Brown was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War. First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.

county seat of Johnson County, Kansas, United States

American clergyman and activist (1813–1887)

American politician and lawyer (1813–1861)

violent political confrontations in the United States centered around slavery

1854 United States legislation promoted by Stephen A. Douglas which repealed the Missouri Compromise line and disrupted the Compromise of 1850

first Union general to be killed in the American Civil War

American politician (1792-1857)

American politician and state governor (1818–1894)

Secret society in the mid-19th-century US

thumb|right|Notorious Confederate bushwhacker Bloody Bill Anderson thumb|Three bushwackers; Archie Clement, Dave Pool, and Bill Hendricks. thumb|John Nichols, a bushwacker who operated in Johnson and Pettis Counties in 1862–1863, prior to his execution in Jefferson City, Missouri, October 30, 1863 Bushwhacking was a form of guerrilla warfare common during the American Revolutionary War, War of 1812, American Civil War and other conflicts in which there were large areas of contested land and few governmental resources to control these tracts. This was particularly prevalent in rural areas durin

American senator

American politician and Union Army General (1817–1892)

Violent Attack by Abolitionists prior to the American Civil War

thumb|Broadside recruiting men for the Independent Kansas Jay-Hawkers, 1st Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. thumb|Burnt Wagons, California|Burned Wagons Point in [[Death Valley, where the Jayhawker group of 49ers killed their oxen, chopped the wagons, dried the meat, and set off westward on foot.]] Jayhawker is a term that came to prominence in Kansas Territory during the Bleeding Kansas period of the 1850s; it was adopted by militant bands affiliated with the free-state cause during the American Civil War. These groups were guerrillas who often clashed with pro-slavery groups from Missouri, known at

American jurist and Union Army general (1829–1896)

American politician (1819-1899)

Political force in the antebellum United States

1856 destruction of the Kansas Territory town

American Union Army officer

American politician (1798-1858)

abolitionist and inventor (1816–1901)

attack on an anti-slavery US Congressman by a pro-slavery US Congressman

1855 armed conflict in Kansas, United States

second of four proposed constitutions for the state of Kansas

1850s pejorative for pro-slavery Missourian raiders within Kansas Territory

abolitionist (1814-1886)

unincorporated community in Douglas County, Kansas

United States Army general (1800-1889)

pro-Confederate partisan guerrillas in the American Civil War

1856 battle

Governor of Kansas territory (1824-1894)

1856 battle of the Bleeding Kansas era

abolitionist group

1855 constitutional convention in Kansas Territory

massacre in United States of America

American government official (1813-1881)