Outsiders attempt to influence territorial elections in Kansas in 1855 and as a result a pro-slavery territorial legislature is fraudulently elected. President Pierce decides to accept election results rather than intervene and stir up trouble, but trouble is already brewing. When free staters establish their own capital in Lawrence, Kansas, brutal guerilla fighting breaks out. The U.S. Army is sent in to keep the peace, but the heated controversy and physical combat spill over into the halls of Congress.

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territorial elections in Kansas, outside interference, pro-slavery legislature elected, presidential inaction, free staters establish capital, brutal guerilla fighting, bleeding Kansas, U.S. Army, congressional fighting, 1850s: Decade of Discord in the United States, The

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