Bleeding Kansas Events

Question 1

What is the Popular Sovereignty Plan?

Answer 1

Citizens of each new territory should vote to decide whether or not to allow slavery

Question 2

What occurred at the Kansas election in 1855, for free or slave state?

Answer 2

New England abolitionists and

Pro-Slavery southerners moved to Kansas

resulting in a corrupted election

Question 3

What did the southerners do after the corrupted election?

Answer 3

On May 1856, a Pro-Slave mob of over 700 settlers from Missouri attacked

Anti-Slavery settlers in Lawrence,Kansas

Destroyed their headquarters of the Free Slavery Party

Question 4

What did the Northerners do after the Kansas election?

Answer 4

John Brown, an abolitionist attacked a

Pro-Slavery settlement along Pottawatomie Creek

He dragged 5 men out of bed and murdered them

Question 5

Why did Bleeding Kansas occur?

Answer 5

Senator Stephan Douglas believed in the Popular Sovereignty Plan