How and why did the events of 1855-1856 concerning Kansas offer a preview of the Civil War?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The settlement of Kansas exposed the flaws of the concept of popular sovereignty in dealing with the slavery issue. Fearful of inundation by New England emigrants, Missouri residents crossed into Kansas to ensure election, by fraudulent means, of a proslavery territorial legislature. When proslavery settlers ransacked the free-state capital of Lawrence, abolitionist John Brown exacted revenge with a massacre at Pottawatomie Creek. The violence of "Bleeding Kansas" extended to Congress as Preston Brooks caned Charles Sumner for an intemperate antislavery speech.
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