Bleeding Kansas

I was reading Limbaugh on the Democratic refusal to convey that they lost - honestly together with fairly - inward the recent elections. Rush touched on the shenanigans of the multiple voters, the ineligible voters, the imported voters, together with all of the other irregularities that the Dems look to remove maintain no work with.

It reminded me of something inward history - the fourth dimension earlier the Civil War, inward the elections earlier the ii sides reached the indicate of a formal split.

The territories were non nevertheless fully settled. People resided there, but inward relatively small-scale numbers. That was almost to change, after the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which changed the so-called Missouri Compromise.

After that act, which allowed the people of that proposed state, which was inward a higher house the Mason-Dixon Line, to remove whether they wanted to operate inward the spousal human relationship every bit Slave or Free, both sides flooded into the territory to endeavor to purpose proponents to forcefulness the residents to remove their side.
In truth, if the actual residents of that territory, along amongst the bulk of those who wanted to settle at that spot had been the solely ones counted, Kansas would probable remove maintain entered every bit a Free state. The rabid pro-slavery side would remove maintain none of that, together with flooded the state from nearby Missouri together with Arkansas.

The pro-Abolition Northerners, seeing that rapid influx of Slavery advocates, eager to sway the choice, came inward quickly, every bit well. Both sides were armed amongst weapons, although, surprisingly, at that spot were few actual deaths, at first.

The side past times side score of escalation occurred when the Pro-Slavery forces out-voted the Free-Staters. In what is maybe a foreshadowing of the time to come of voting, the Pro-Slavery Democrats "found" votes, together with got Kansas declared a Pro-Slavery State.
Fewer than one-half the ballots were cast past times registered voters, together with at 1 location, solely xx of every 600 voters were legal residents. The pro-slavery forces won the election. While Kansas had some 1,500 registered voters at the time, non all of whom truly voted, over 6,000 votes were cast. More significantly, the Border Ruffians repeated their actions on March 30, 1855 when the commencement territorial legislature was elected, swaying the vote in 1 trial to a greater extent than inward favor of slavery.
John Brown's infamous slaughter of his political enemies came later on - interestingly, he was never prosecuted for that crime. Officially, he claimed non to remove maintain been responsible for the Pottawatomie Massacre; most historians mean value that was untrue.

Brown later on died at Harper's Ferry, where he hoped to spark off a Slave Revolt - it was stopped, unsuccessful inward its aim.

Mind you, this prelude to the actual Civil War was inward 1855 - only half dozen years earlier the assault on Fort Sumter.

I've noticed that really few history texts bargain inward whatever depth amongst this topic, 1 that would live on of involvement to modern students, involving, every bit it does:

  • Voter fraud
  • Refusal to convey results of elections
  • Dirty tricks inward voter eligibility
  • Willingness to destroy the local expanse to gain political capital
  • Use of the media to sway results
  • Suppression of media
  • Demonizing one's opponents
  • Acceptance of violence truly within Congress, used against one's enemies
  • Over-the-top rhetoric, amongst religiously affiliated speakers leading the way

I'm going to pass some fourth dimension making lessons for middle-schoolers on this conflict, together with others that involve political dissension inward the US that is non resolved at the ballot box. It volition focus on voter fraud, manipulation of the electoral process, together with other relevant topics. My destination is to await at political conflict, together with how it relates to refusal to purpose elections every bit a means of managing the dispute.

I'll postal service hither again, in 1 trial I've got the bundle receive (probably almost a week's worth of lessons). I anticipate using something similar Teachers Pay Teachers to sell it.
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