But Kansas was next to the slave state of Missouri. In an era that would come to be known as "Bleeding Kansas," the territory would become a battleground over the slavery question. The reaction ...

As tensions over slavery reached a boiling point, Senator Charles Sumner was brutally caned by Preston Brooks after delivering his speech, The Crime Against Kansas. This event pushed John Brown into ...

Challenges: Franklin Pierce had to deal with the violent consequences—“Bleeding Kansas”—of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which some historians categorize as a low-intensity civil war. Pierce ...

But Kansas was next to the slave state of Missouri. In an era that would come to be known as "Bleeding Kansas," the territory would become a battleground over the slavery question. The reaction ...