<P> Bleeding Kansas , Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas . The conflict was characterized by years of electoral fraud , raids , assaults , and retributive murders carried out by pro-slavery `` Border Ruffians '' and anti-slavery `` Free - Staters '' in Kansas and neighboring Missouri . </P>
<P> Bleeding Kansas , Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas . The conflict was characterized by years of electoral fraud , raids , assaults , and retributive murders carried out by pro-slavery `` Border Ruffians '' and anti-slavery `` Free - Staters '' in Kansas and neighboring Missouri . </P>
what was the cause of the bleeding kansas
what was the cause of the bleeding kansas
a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas
a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas