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This 3 page paper discusses the three ways in which Americans saw the future of Kansas and the country. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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of increasing tension, violence flared between slaveholders and abolitionists and nowhere was the violence worse than in Kansas. This paper uses contemporary newspaper accounts to discuss what kind of America
people wanted to see formed. Discussion There are basically three nations that might have formed in 1860: one in which slavery was legal; one in which it was abolished; and
a sort of compromise, where the situation was ignored. Kansas became the battleground where these theories were tested. The unrest was in large part the result of the "compromise
of 1850," which brought California into the Union as a free state but "balanced" it out by allowing Utah and New Mexico to determine if they would come in as
free or slave states; it also included the terrible Fugitive Slave Law as part of the package (Kelly, 2009). It was meant to defuse tensions but instead created even more.
The two sides took up arms in Kansas. The factionalism was brazen. In "An appeal to the South," pro-slavery people asked other Southerners to come to Kansas to help them
fight to extend slavery to that territory. The pro-slavery people were described as being "in the field working in the cause" and asked that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid"
(An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like that perpetrated by John Brown, later to win fame (or infamy) with his attack on Harpers
Ferry. Brown was a wholly committed abolitionist, and perhaps the embodiment of the evils of extremism. No one doubts that slavery was evil, but Browns rampage in Kansas is horrific:
he and his sons hacked five pro-slavery men to death on Pottawatomie Creek in Kansas. They woke them in the middle of the night and dragged them outside where they
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