During the years of 1854 and 1858 the state
of Kansas was going through a time of great anger which did not take long to
lead to violence. What first caused citizens to become angry was the
Kansas-Nebraska Act. This act allowed the people of Kansas and Nebraska to
choose whether or not it is a slave state which goes completely against the
Missouri Compromise. With slavery already being an ongoing issue in the states
this didn’t make it any better, in fact it made it worse. Violence soon broke
out between the people in Kansas as well as in the state Senate. Senator
Charles Sumner decided to make a 2-day speech about this new act and how it was
not appropriate. During this speech he had brought up three people in
particular and not in a good way. When I say "Not in a good way" I mean, bashing them due to their part in the new Act. Unfortunately one of the Congressmen present
had been related to one of those people causing his to get angry and savagely
beat Sumner with his cane on the Senate floor. This event was a direct result of the the Kansas-Nebraska Act and surely caused a lot
of commotion between the north and the south and the violence continued.
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