Bloody Kansas

In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed and put into effect. Instead of choosing whether the two states should be slave or Free states, the government left it for the people to decide, known as popular sovereignty. It was assumed that the North would get Nebraska as a free state and the Sou8th would get Kansas as a slave state. Unfortunately, things went wrong and led to the death and violence in Kansas known as Bloody Kansas. The North took the state of Nebraska, as a free state, and the South did not complain there. Suddenly, they had a large surge into Kansas in a greedy attempt to take that state as a free state as well. The North, in a gluttonous attempt to gain more electoral votes and representation in Congress, rudely ignored the thoughts of the South and moved into the territory that was supposed to be given to the South. First, the South had been in Kansas before the Northerners came, so they had initial claims to the land. In addition, when the state was given a vote, the results overwhelmingly pointed to making Kansas a slave state. The hardheaded northerners did no see that it was imperative for the South to get Kansas for the South knew that if Kansas became a free state, there would be a very large increase in fugitive slaves from Missouri to Kansas, thus endangering the economy of Missouri and potentially leading to a slave rebellion. The North had nothing that they would lose if they did not get Kansas, for they already had

one more free state than slave (due to Nebraska). After these elections in 1854 and 1855, after the North had flooded in to Kansas, the Southerners had assumed that they won, for they won both the original vote and the re-vote. Since the did win, they immediately took action in forming a state government. After the vote, a territorial legislature, led by the Southerners, convened and passed a series of proslavery laws, which they had every right to make. Unfortunately, the Northerners unfairly tired to gain control of Kansas by forming a shadow government at Topeka. Luckily, the president agreed with the Southerners here and only recognized the pro slavery legislature. Clearly, it can be seen that the North caused Bloody Kansas because of their greediness and unjust values. First, the tried to get both Nebraska and Kansas as Free states, but Kansas was supposed to go to the slave states. Also, during the vote, Northerners came down from the North and tried to steal the state, thus inciting violence. By performing these unjust actions, they instigated the South into attacking Topeka, which they did with only one casualty of a Southerner. Then, the North attacked a settlement in the South and brutally chopped five Southerners to pieces. Clearly, the above position proves that the North were morally wrong in their choices against the South, as well as they acted unfairly and unjustly in their attempts to steal Kansas, and as a result, led the massacres of Bloody Kansas.