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What is bleeding Kansas

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Bleeding Kansas is, Violent Civil confrontations in the United States between 1854-1861 that emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery.
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People in Kansas were fighting over whether the territory should become a free state or a slave state. More than 200 people died in this controversy that became known as 'Bleeding Kansas." The term "Bleeding Kansas" is used to describe the violence.

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