Bleeding Kansas

English

Proper noun

Bleeding Kansas

  1. (historical) A series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859, emerging from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.
    Synonym: Bloody Kansas
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